[Bioc-devel] Adding a lengths() method to List class

[Cook, Malcolm]

Dumb question (?) follows in line:

> That is the plan. Note that we already have elementLengths() that serves the
 > same purpose. It was the direct inspiration for lengths().

Why have both?

 > 
 > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Peter Hickey <peter.hickey at gmail.com>
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > The lengths() function was added in R 3.2 to "get the length of each
 > > element of a list or atomic vector (is.atomic) as an integer or
 > > numeric vector." It seems useful to me to have also a similar method
 > > defined for the S4Vectors::List class (and subclasses). What do others think?