[Rd] proto and baseenv()

[Ben]

> In end it seems that your real beef is with R so perhaps you should
> be using a different language.

In my case you may be right.  I do think there are a million things
wrong with R.  For instance, I was looking for a package that
overcomes two of the problems R IMHO has: namespace pollution and the
lack of an easy-to-use standard object system.

Should I be using R?  I do keep asking myself that same question...

> With respect to proto its really just discussing whether to use
> proto(baseenv(), ...) vs proto(...)

Unfortunately this doesn't fix the problem as was noted earlier:

> z <- 1
> proto(baseenv(), expr={a <- z})$a
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "z" not found

> Also, your alternative likely would be unusable due to performance
> whereas proto is fast enough to be usable (see list of applications
> that use it at http://r-proto.googlecode.com/#Applications).  Its
> not as fast as S3 (though sometimes you can get it that fast by
> optimizing your code).  The development version of proto is even
> faster than the current version of proto due to the addition of lazy
> evaluation.

This make sense to me.


-- 
Ben Escoto