[Rd] S4 generic functions/methods vs enclosures

[John Chambers]

Look at ?ReferenceClasses for this OOP paradigm in R, which is quite 
different from the functional paradigm of S4 methods.

On 4/6/11 7:54 AM, A Zege wrote:
> Apologies for asking something that is probably very obvious, i just started
> with S4 classes and i guess i am not finding documentation that lays out the
> grammar rules and gives enough examples.
>
> I understand that main method of writing a member function is to write a
> generic function and setMethod for this particular class. This, however,
> presumes that there is "virtuality" for this function, i.e. it could be used
> with other inherited classes . Truth is, many, if not most of my functions
> don't have virtuality in mind. I want to write them inside classes to
> achieve incapsulaton only -- use class member data without passing it as
> parameters or making global to a bunch of functions and have some specific
> class member functions that don't pollute a global namespace and can be
> called only for a particular class. This is what enclosured do in R. Is
> there some obvious way of setting this environment local to a class and
> without writing generic functions that i am missing?
>
>
> Would appreciate any pointers
>
>
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