R's UseMethod() does not dispatch on changed class() (PR#167)

[Robert Gentleman]

On 15 Apr 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Erm, does that cover this case?:
> 
> >  f<-function(x){x<-2;print(substitute(x));UseMethod("print")}  
> > f(4)
> [1] 2
> [1] 4
> > f((4))
> (4)
> [1] 2
> 
> (It may, I'm just too tired to see it...)

  Wow! That's peculiar. 
  R does the rather boring

> f<-function(x){x<-2;print(substitute(x));UseMethod("print")}
> f(4)
[1] 2
[1] 4
> f((4))
[1] 2
[1] 4

  Does that mean that our implementaion of substitute is not quite
right? The documentation suggests that you get the expression typed as
the value of a formal argument; right now we're getting the current
value.

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