advice on arguments
On 6/30/2006 10:49 AM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
- It breaks the partial argument matching, e.g. foo1(siz = 3) would act just like the above, instead of like foo1(size = 3)
Is this viewed as a feature? Having ( dataset=3 ) foul the namespace for d, da, dat, data, etc... sounds miserable to me.
I think there are mixed feelings about whether it is a feature or a misfeature, but it's a very old property of the S language. Duncan Murdoch