[Bioc-devel] Request to add 'normalize' to BiocGenerics
On 02/20/2013 01:02 PM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:
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Furthermore, the good citizens that modify their package to use the normalize() in BiocGenerics will be in a situation worth than before because, from an end user point of view, their normalize() function (which is now a method attached to BiocGenerics::normalize) won't seem to work anymore, even if their package was loaded last, just because one bad citizen was loaded before (unless the end user calls BiocGenerics::normalize()). That would be unfair. So if I was the maintainer of one of those packages, I wouldn't see any benefit of making that move, all the contrary, unless everybody else also makes it.
Oops, I'm taking this whole paragraph back. I did some testing and it seems that the "normalize" method (defined in package A) would actually be found, even if its generic is masked by package B, as long as package A is before package B in the search path. H.