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...out a bit here too. It already has special cases for "::" and ":::". Currently you get the symbols "pkg" and "name" and have to go fishing in the calling environment for the associated values. It would be nice to have the parser or JIT rewrite base::match as doubleColon("base","match") or directly provide the symbols "base" and "match" to the subsequent code. I think it's also kind of entertaining that the comments in base/R/namespace.R note that they are using ":::" for speed purposes only. Pete ____________...

The survival package makes significant use of the "specials" argument of terms(), before calling model.frame; it is part of nearly every modeling function. The reason is that strata argments simply have to be handled differently than other things on the right hand side. Likewise for tt() and cluster(), though those are much less frequent. I now get "bug reports" from the

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:44 AM, <luke-tierney at uiowa.edu> wrote: > > For default methods there ought to be a way to create those so the > default method is computed at creation or load time and stored in an > environment. We had considered that, but we thought the definition of the function would be easier to interpret if it explicitly specified the namespace, instead of