Clint Jeffery wrote: > [Dennis writes that he can't call built-in sin() from inside a class that > has a sin() method.] > > Hi Dennis, > > It is true that class scope is more local than (and hides/overrides) the > global scope. This is a feature, not a bug. > > >From inside your class, though, you can obtain a reference to the built-in > sin() function with proc("sin",0). So, you can have your cake and eat it too. > Look in the ipl for lots of examples of calling proc( ... , 0 ) whenever there > is a potential name conflict. > Isn't it simpler to, as in C++, simply specify ::sin() when you want to access the global function? I suppose that's a package-based solution, but it seems more convenient than having to use proc()
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