Funny warning message
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Bill Venables wrote:
"John" == John Logsdon <j.logsdon at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
John> So, as an entry to the wish-list, since R handles it
John> correctly, wouldn't it be better to suppress the
John> warning message - via an option statement. After all
John> t() is clearly different to t[ ] or t so the context
John> should be able to determine what is really wanted.
As it was doing, of course. All you were getting was a warning
message, which to my mind is not a bad idea. If you did use t
for a function name (and if you use it as a variable name, why
not a function?) you would probably find that some vital system
function was suddenly and mysteriously broken.
The intention in a future version of R to warn only if the object
which is masked is of the same mode ("function" here). This was decided
a couple of weeks ago, but we needed to get R-0.64 out first.
Brian
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