[Rd] advice on arguments

Allen S. Rout asr at ufl.edu
Fri Jun 30 16:49:42 CEST 2006


Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

>   - It breaks the partial argument matching, e.g.
> 
> foo1(siz = 3)
> 
> would act just like the above, instead of like
> 
> foo1(size = 3)


Is this viewed as a feature?  Having ( dataset=3 ) foul the namespace
for d, da, dat, data, etc... sounds miserable to me.


- Allen S. Rout



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