[Rd] rare bad bug in sys.function() {or match.arg()} (PR#1409)

[Luke Tierney]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:39:10PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch writes:
> 
> This looks suspiciously like the same issue as PR#921. Did someone
> have plans to change the context stack handling so that we could have
> a "real" sys.function()? To quote my own followup to PR#921:
> 
> "The problem is that we only actually store the call in the context
> structure, not the function, so sys.function has to grab the call,
> take the 1st element, and reevaluate it in the parent frame."
> 

I have it on my list but won't get to it for 1.5.

luke

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