[Rd] The default behaviour of a missing entry in an environment

[Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy]

Hello Henrik,

On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> If you develop your own code you can add your own behavior by
> "extending" the environment class.  I put "extending" in quotation
> marks, because 'environment' is one of few classes you should *not*
> extend from in the regular S3 (and S4?) sense, at least that was the
> case a few years ago.  You can search the r-devel list about issues
> when trying to do so.  One thing I remember is that it didn't work
> well to save such objects.  Bla bla bla, there are workarounds for it
> and the Object class in the R.oo package is one.  Here is how you can
> add your protection for your own environment-like objects:

I like this solution! (As well as the name of the picky object.)
If the environment class can be properly subclassed,
then everything should work in principle. Thanks for the tip.

-Trishank