From asr at ufl.edu  Fri Jun 30 16:49:42 2006
From: asr at ufl.edu (Allen S. Rout)
Date: 30 Jun 2006 10:49:42 -0400
Subject: [Rd] advice on arguments
References: <44A4057C.4040203@zoo.ufl.edu>
	<5d897a2f0606292330v40cbd06bm53dda1a5b2800d96@mail.gmail.com>
	<44A4FFA4.7030103@stats.uwo.ca>
Message-ID: <86ejx6aebd.fsf@ufl.edu>

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.


- Allen S. Rout



[Rd] advice on arguments
Allen S. Rout