[Bioc-devel] compare generics

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Laurent,

On 04/09/2014 12:36 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> What are your thoughts about adding a new generic to BiocGenerics:
>
>   setGeneric("compare", function(x, y, ...) setGeneric("compare"))
>
> I have spotted a couple of existing cases on CRAN (lava (S3) and NMF
> (S4) with signature function(object, ...)) and CMA::compare (with a very
> different signature) on Bioc (maintainer cc'ed).

I could do that but that would help only if the CRAN package agrees
to depend on BiocGenerics, which is unlikely. (I can see how a CRAN
maintainer could be reluctant to depend on a BioC package.)

Even with BiocGenerics around, it's hard to avoid this kind of clash.

H.

>
> Best wishes,
>
> Laurent
>
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