R (development) changes in arith, logic relop with 0-extent arrays

I've been slightly surprised (or even "frustrated") by the empty
reaction on our R-devel list to this post.

I would have expected some critique, may be even some praise,
... in any case some sign people are "thinking along" (as we say
in German).

Have patience Martin.  I read the news in digest form once a day and just saw the 
announcement and this follow-up a few minutes ago.  I haven't had cause to download a new 
copy of R-devel in the last month so the new Sept 5 version hasn't impacted me.

The survival package had one line of code that will need modification, which isn't so bad. 
  It involves the scaled Shoenfeld residuals, for which the formula is r V + 1 beta'; r= 
matrix of residuals with nvar columns and #deaths rows, V=vcov(fit) = variance matrix, and 
then add beta[j] to each column j.  When the number of covariates is 1 the first term of 
this collapsed to a vector *  1x1 matrix, mostly because of how the code was written, 
which was itself the result of evolution over time.   Bottom line is that I don't find 
either the prior behavior or the new one problematic.

Terry T.