[Rd] Methods package: One of those strategy questions

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, John Chambers wrote:

> I had better mention this one separately, since until it's settled you
> need a workaround.
>
> If you define methods for primitives now, this does NOT create an
> explicit generic function for, say, "[", so that the original primitive
> computations still run.
>
> This means that the method dispatch has to be turned on for that
> function somehow else.

Is this true whenever you define a method for a primitive or only if
that primitive hasn't already got methods defined for it?

	-thomas

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