From epurdom at stanford.edu  Thu Dec  9 19:28:40 2004
From: epurdom at stanford.edu (epurdom@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Dec  9 19:28:43 2004
Subject: [Rd] wishlist -- names gives slotnames (PR#7410)
Message-ID: <20041209182840.29F3810F41@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom
Version: 1.9.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199)


It would be nice if names(obj) would give slot names as well. Since for many
people slots are new, the first thing that happens is you try to access what's
in them and can't find how to do it. If you don't know that slotNames() exists,
it can be very frustrating. Moreover, if you don't even know that the objects
has slots (or that such things exist), it's extremely confusing. It just looks
like nothing is there (you get NULL). If needed, you could have a message that
says that these are slots and should be accessed with "@". 
Thanks,
Elizabeth


[Rd] wishlist -- names gives slotnames (PR#7410)
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