On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/06/2015 1:57 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> A slightly simpler formulation of the problem is: >> >> show <- function(...) stop("My show!") >> methods::setClass("Person", slots = list(name = "character")) >> methods::new("Person", name = "Tom") >> #> Error in (function (...) : My show! > > Just to be clear: the complaint is that the auto-called show() is not > methods::show? I.e. after > > x <- methods::new("Person", name = "Tom") > > you would expect > > show(x) > > to give the error, but not > > x > > ??
Correct - I'd expect print() to always call methods::show(), not whatever show() is first on the search path. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel