>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:17:05 -0600 writes:
Tony> I've also been thinking about how to specify that 'along' should be
Tony> length(dim)+1. At the moment one can specify any number from 0 up to
Tony> length(dim)+1, but as you point out you have to spell out length(dim)+1 as
Tony> the value for the along argument. It would possible to make abind()
Tony> automatically calculate along=length(dim)+1 when given along=NA, or
Tony> along=-1, or along="+1". Any preferences?
I'd take a string, as your last proposal does, (since I think
such use should not be confoundable with `integer - use' -- in
order to catch programming errors of the caller).
Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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