On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM, <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
Just as a heads-up: it is likely that unlocking the bindings in base
for pi, T, F, probably all BULTIN and SPECIAL functions, and possibly
more, will start signaling warnings in the near future. Doing this
may be useful at times for debugging but it can mess up assumptions
others make about how things in base work and so reduce code
reliability.
That seems ok for pi, T and F but if its extended to everything in
base then I would hope there is a nowarn= argument or other easy way
to avoid the warning message.
That would defeat the purpose. Unlocking things in base may be useful
for experimenting or debugging but it is not a good idea otherwise.
[? assignInNamespace could be more explicit on htis and will be soon.]
There is a reason we lock bindings in the first place, and that is so
one can assume that these bindings have certain values and certain
properties and one can write reliable programs against these
assumptions.
Best,
luke
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