[Rd] Style question

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri May 30 21:08:45 CEST 2014


> Finally, now that the use of a NAMESPACE became mandatory (well, this
> happened a few years ago), advocating systematic use of foo::whatever()
> without explicitly importing the function sounds a little bit like an
> heroic act of resistance ;-)

I don't think that's at all true - for most other programming
languages, the preferred style is to explicitly refer to functions,
including their namespace/package etc.

Hadley

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