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Confused about NAMED

Hi,

I expected NAMED to be 1 in all these three cases. It is for one of them,
but not the other two?
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
@2514aa0 13 INTSXP g0c1 [NAM(2)] (len=1, tl=0) 1
@272f788 13 INTSXP g0c4 [NAM(1)] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,...
@24fc28c 19 VECSXP g0c0 [OBJ,NAM(2),ATT] (len=0, tl=0)
ATTRIB:
  @24fc270 02 LISTSXP g0c0 []
    TAG: @3f2120 01 SYMSXP g0c0 [MARK,gp=0x4000] "names"
    @24fc334 16 STRSXP g0c0 [] (len=0, tl=0)
    TAG: @3f2040 01 SYMSXP g0c0 [MARK,gp=0x4000] "row.names"
    @24fc318 13 INTSXP g0c0 [] (len=0, tl=0)
    TAG: @3f2388 01 SYMSXP g0c0 [MARK,gp=0x4000] "class"
    @25be500 16 STRSXP g0c1 [] (len=1, tl=0)
      @1d38af0 09 CHARSXP g0c2 [MARK,gp=0x21,ATT] "data.frame"

It's a little difficult to search for the word "named" but I tried and
found this in R-ints :

    "Note that optimizing NAMED = 1 is only effective within a primitive
(as the closure wrapper of a .Internal will set NAMED = 2 when the
promise to the argument is evaluated)"

So might it be that just looking at NAMED using .Internal(inspect()) is
setting NAMED=2?  But if so, why does y have NAMED==1?

Thanks!
Matthew