From hadley at rice.edu  Wed May  4 15:34:43 2011
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 08:34:43 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Recursive objects
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
>
>> Any hints as to what to search for?
>
> ?For recursive objects, search for recursive objects.

Well, I was hoping Luke was meaning discussions about computing on the
language more generally...

Searching for recursive objects (with an admittedly quick skimming on
titles), didn't seem to find anything relevant, except that it was me
who suggested the wording "Most types of objects are regarded as
recursive, except for atomic vector types, ?NULL? and symbols (as
given by ?as.name?)"

Hadley


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[Rd] Recursive objects
Hadley Wickham