[Rd] Define 'in' for new class

[Bert Gunter]

See the 'iterators' package on CRAN.

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:28 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12 Aug 2014, at 08:29 , Simon Knapp <sleepingwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Is it possible to define how 'in' works for an object of a specific class
>> (to achieve a similar result to implementing the iterator protocol in a
>> class Python)?
>>
>
> No, because 'in' doesn't really exist, it is "syntactic sugar" to sweeten a call to the "for" function with its three arguments. E.g.
>
>> `for`(i,1:2,print(i))
> [1] 1
> [1] 2
>
> So what you're really asking for is something like a `for` with class dispatch or the two first arguments replaced by an iterator mechanism. That's not in the cards, at least at the moment, but I suppose it isn't completely out of the question either -- ideas of this sort get bandied around occasionally. It would require changes to R's internals; it is not something you can do in (say) a package.
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon Knapp
>>
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