On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:59:26AM -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote: > Because R assumes that you don't mess with the arguments, it also > optimizes b to point to the same object as a which you then modify.
> I hope it sheds some light on it. Indeed! Thank you Simon, that was a thorough and illuminating answer. (Now I have better understanding of how the machine works, and what the dangerous sharp bits are. :) -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> http://www.piskorski.com/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
