From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Thu Sep  9 16:46:02 1999
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:46:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Fortran character strings
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9909090916450.4120-100000@auk.stats>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909090823390.21909-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> > PS.  A comment on ?.External:  We have
> > 
> >          list          void * (SEXP *)
> >          other         void * (SEXP)
> > 
> > I think this (showing the alternative in parenteses) may be confusing.
> > Shouldn't we show the preferred method in the table and mention the
> > alternative somewhere in the text following?
> 
> It is confusing. Actually all of them are mapped to void *, so I think we
> should be giving SEXP * and SEXP. Thomas?


The reason for having void * listed is that you can then declare the
arguments without including the Rinternals header, but that could
just be explained in the text. Done.

	-thomas



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Fortran character strings
Thomas Lumley