R devel - Apr 2023 - sum(), min(), max(), prod() vs. named arguments in ...

? Sun, 16 Apr 2023 01:34:33 -0400
Mikael Jagan <jaganmn2 at gmail.com> ?????:
> Forbidding or warning against tagged arguments other than 'na.rm'
> would be quite intrusive, since it is not uncommon to see
> do.call(sum, <named list>).
Thank you for providing this counter-example! I did suspect this to be
a non-starter, but didn't have a proof.
> str(...) only gives the structure of the first argument matching the
> dots.
Also, thanks for the detailed explanation of what I was observing in my
example sum() method. I should have paid attention to my str() calls.

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Best regards,
Ivan