From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Apr 25 14:46:16 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:46:16 +0200
Subject: [Rd] RFC:  What should ?foo do?
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Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I haven't done it, but I suspect we could introduce special behaviour 
> for ??foo very easily.  We could even have a whole hierarchy:
>
> ?foo, ??foo, ???foo, ????foo, ...
>
>   
Heh, that's rather nice, actually. In words, that could read

?foo: tell me about foo!
??foo: what can you tell me about foo?
???foo: what can you tell me about things like foo?
????foo: I don't know what I'm looking for but it might be something
related foo?

You do have to be careful about messing with ?, though. I think many
people, including me, would pretty quickly go nuts if ?par suddenly
didn't work the way we're used to.

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[Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?
Peter Dalgaard