[Rd] change in behavior of <<-

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
>
> >
> > There has been a change to the behavior of <<-.
> > See the error thrown at the bottom of the transcript
> > below.  I don't believe this is an intended change.
>
> It's an unintended side-effect of an intended change.  Since we don't use
> <<- very much in base R it didn't get noticed.
>

The change has been reverted.  We'll have another try at fixing the
underlying problem after 1.9.0 is out.

	-thomas