On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Joshua Bradley <jgbradl...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the poster's on the SO post I linked to previously suggested this but > if '+' were made to be S4 compliant, then adding the ability to concat > strings with '+' would be a relatively simple addition (no pun intended) to > the code base I believe. With a lot of other languages supporting this kind > of concatenation, this is what surprised me most when first learning R. > > This is where my (lack of) experience in R starts to show and why I brought > up the question about performance. I'm wondering how bad performance would > be effected by making '+' (or all arithmetic operators in general) S4 > compliant.
I don't know much about S4, but '+' is already generic, so implementation would be easy I guess. Also, since it is already generic, I don't think this would affect performance at all. (But FIXME please.) The reason why it is not implemented is not because it is difficult. Gabor > Josh Bradley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
