On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > >> Any hints as to what to search for? > > For recursive objects, search for recursive objects.
Well, I was hoping Luke was meaning discussions about computing on the language more generally... Searching for recursive objects (with an admittedly quick skimming on titles), didn't seem to find anything relevant, except that it was me who suggested the wording "Most types of objects are regarded as recursive, except for atomic vector types, ‘NULL’ and symbols (as given by ‘as.name’)" Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel