[Rd] setClass accepts slot-mismatch between slots and prototype arguments

[William Dunlap]

I was installing the 'diffobj' package into TERR and got an error from the
call
StyleSummary <- setClass("StyleSummary",
  slots=c(container="ANY", body="ANY", map="ANY"),
  prototype=list(
    container=function(x) sprintf("\n%s\n", paste0(x, collapse="")),
    body=identity,
    detail=function(x) sprintf("\n%s\n", paste0("  ", x, collapse="")),
    map=function(x) sprintf("\n%s", paste0("  ", x, collapse="\n"))
  ))
because the prototype contained components not in the slots list.  R does
not complain about the mismatch, but new("StyleSummary") does name make
something with a 'detail' slot.  Should this be an error?

I suspect that the package writer intended to include 'detail' in the slots
argument.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

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