Re: [Rd] Are package maintainers responsible for name-mangling class names?

2003-10-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote: > The following came up when Roger Bivand and I discussed > R's name spaces and overlap in packages, in the bus to the > field trip during StatGIS, last Tuesday: > > If two packages create the same class, say "variogram", and both > are loaded, then usin

[Rd] Are package maintainers responsible for name-mangling class names?

2003-10-02 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
The following came up when Roger Bivand and I discussed R's name spaces and overlap in packages, in the bus to the field trip during StatGIS, last Tuesday: If two packages create the same class, say "variogram", and both are loaded, then using a method for an object of class "variogram" cannot disc