[Rd] crash bug in get("function.name")() (PR#1211)

[Luke Tierney]

I don't think I'll get to look at this cerefully today, but here is
just a thought: My recollection is that NextMethod needs to be called
only from within a usemethod dispatch because the dispatch needs to
set up stuff in the environment that NextMethod needs.  If you do

print.a <- function(...) NextMethod()

and then call print.a directly then the stuff NextMethod needs isn't
set up, so NextMethod can't do anything useful.  I think the
do_nextmethod tries to detect this and raise an error, but for some
reason it isn't detecting the problem here.

luke

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:11:07PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Rich Heiberger <rmh@surfer.sbm.temple.edu> writes:
> 
> > Peter, your explanation looks right to me, and is certainly consistent
> > with the crash behavior of
> > get("print.a")
> > The R-1.4.0 error message is a good check.
> > 
> > I would think the explanation should prevent the other example from
> > working as well.  But this one works
> > get("print.factor")(tmp)
> > exactly as expected.
> > 
> > Both of these examples work correctly in S-Plus 4.5
> 
> (S-PLUS 3.4 too)
> 
> There's no NextMethod in print.factor, but I was wrong on the other
> example: It has NextMethod("print",....) with an explicit generic, so
> I don't think it should go near the CAR(call) bit at all.
> 
> I'll take a closer look, but there's also a few other nasty bugs
> nagging us at the moment, and this looks like it could require surgery
> to do_nextmethod with some risk of complications.
> 
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