[Rd] surprising behavior of match.arg() (PR#872)

[Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov]

So, in my toy example, when I add the line Fun <- Fun after the first
invocation of Fun(), Fun finds the default args when invoked a second time.
That gives me an easy work around for the real problem where I encountered
this.  Thanks.

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Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov writes:

> If a function needs to be passed as an argument to another function,
> default arguments to the function being passed are lost.  Consider this
> example:

Interesting...

Apparently, sys.function() is still a promise after the  function has
been called (and the promise obviously forced).
Minimal example of same effect:

> f<-function()sys.function()
> f()
function()sys.function()
> g<-delay(f)
> g()
<promise: 0x8b248b4>
> g<-g
> g()
function()sys.function()


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