Re: [R] [Rd] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Dimitris, > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100 > Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > > >> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized >> by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, >> and it happens almost everywhere in

Re: [R] [Rd] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stefan Evert wrote: >>> can you please stop repeating this nonsense? I don't think anybody >>> ever claimed that vectors can be considered list. >> >> yes, it is nonsense. yes, there is one person who repeatedly made this >> claim. please read the archives; specifically, [1]. note this >> statem

Re: [R] [Rd] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Stefan Evert
can you please stop repeating this nonsense? I don't think anybody ever claimed that vectors can be considered list. yes, it is nonsense. yes, there is one person who repeatedly made this claim. please read the archives; specifically, [1]. note this statement: "Note that any vec

Re: [R] [Rd] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stefan Evert wrote: > Dear vQ, > >> vectors (can-be-considered-lists), > > can you please stop repeating this nonsense? I don't think anybody > ever claimed that vectors can be considered list. yes, it is nonsense. yes, there is one person who repeatedly made this claim. please read the archi