[R] help with oop in R - class structure and syntex

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If you believe that certain changes intended only to affect the local
environment nevertheless affect the global environment please give a
code example.

On Feb 6, 2008 12:11 PM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Hardley. I see what you mean. You are right, I am not an expert in
> oop AND I don't really know how R oo works, so certainly I shouldn't be
> making any sweeping statement. I was just thinking about the issue of local
> vs. global, i.e. changes intended for the local environment shouldn't affect
> the global environment. That was all I meant.
>
>
> On 2/6/08, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2008 10:13 AM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks Gabor. I guess true oo encapsulation is not possible in R.
> >
> > Before making such a claim, I would encourage you to actually learn
> > what oo means.  A couple of good readings are:
> >
> > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
> > http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
> >
> > Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming.
> > http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
> >
> > Java style (message passing) oo is not the entirety of oo-based
> > programming!
> >
> > Hadley
> >
> > --
> > http://had.co.nz/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tom
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