On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Sebastian P. Luque wrote: > Thank you all for your comments, which confirm the feeling I had that > 'slot' is only needed in the rare occasions Roger mentioned. Although > 'slot' is an accessor function, it seems it's not quite analogous to > functions or methods for accessing components of objects. >
I find that slot() is useful in explaining to users what is going on. I also find that used inside s/lapply that say function(x) slot(x, "y") is a natural way to access contents of lists of objects. So I wouldn't conclude that it is only rarely used, and would recommend its use in explaining to students/users what is going on in new-style objects. Roger > > Cheers, > > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
