[Rd] advice on arguments

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 6/30/2006 10:49 AM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
> 
>>   - It breaks the partial argument matching, e.g.
>>
>> foo1(siz = 3)
>>
>> would act just like the above, instead of like
>>
>> foo1(size = 3)
> 
> 
> Is this viewed as a feature?  Having ( dataset=3 ) foul the namespace
> for d, da, dat, data, etc... sounds miserable to me.

I think there are mixed feelings about whether it is a feature or a 
misfeature, but it's a very old property of the S language.

Duncan Murdoch