[R] "privileged slots"

[Wolski]

Hi!

I think that there are no mechanism in S4 to make slots "private".
But you as a package developer can of course provide accessor functions to a public slot anyway and use slot(myslot,value,check=FALSE)
to switch of the function checkSlotAssignment function and speed up your code.

This is how I interpretation of this text of John Chambers.


Sincerely
Eryk



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On 5/27/2004 at 2:01 PM Matthias Kohl wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>in the help for RClassUtils I found the expression "privileged slots" in 
>function "checkSlotAssignment" with the explanation:
>
>/privileged slots (those that can only be set by accesor functions 
>defined along with the class itself)/
>
>I thought all slots of a (not private) class can be a accessed by a user 
>via the @ Operator.
>Is there a way to make a single slot of a class (not the whole class) 
>private, so that you can access this slot only via an accessor function 
>(not via @)?
>
>Thanks, for your help
>Matthias
>
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