From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Jul 17 07:48:45 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:48:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: methods: representation gives "unused arguments" on failure
 (PR#1796)
In-Reply-To: <3D34892A.A3746189@research.bell-labs.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0207170740390.15033-100000@auk.stats>

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, John Chambers wrote:

[...]

> It might be nice to have stop() take multiple arguments in the same
> style as warning() to save  typographical errors for those of us with
> parenthesis-dislexia.  Looks like the same one-line addition,
>       if(nargs() == 0) message <- NULL else message <- paste(...,
> sep="")
> would work in stop().

That discrepancy between warning() and stop() has always puzzled me.
I've just altered stop() to allow multiple arguments.

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methods: representation gives "unused arguments" on failure (PR#1796)
Prof Brian D Ripley