dump() bug?

Is this a bug?  Certainly it was not expected.  dump() seems to prefer a
global definition over a local one.  R 1.6.1 on Solaris 8 or NetBSD:

ls()

character(0)

dump("D", "D.q")	# a global D() exists
system("cat D.q")

"D" <-
function (expr, name)
.Internal(D(expr, name))

D <- function(x) print(x)	# now create a local one
ls()

[1] "D"

dump("D", "D.q")
system("cat D.q")	# here's the surprise

"D" <-
function (expr, name)
.Internal(D(expr, name))

The same thing happens with dump(list=ls(), "D.q").

Ray Brownrigg
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