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...e for S4 method dispatch. 'value.if.not.found': Note that CRAN checks requires all arguments to be written in full length. Even though we have auto completion in ESS, Rstudio or other good R IDE's, I very much like to keep function calls somewhat compact. And yes, as you mention the dromedars aka 2-hump camels: getIfExist is already horrible to my taste (and "_" is not S-like; yes that's all very much a matter of taste and yes I'm from the 20th century). > To avoid this difficulty, perhaps we want both: have Martin's getifexists( ) > return a list with...

In November, we had a "bug repository conversation" with Peter Hagerty and myself: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16065 where the bug report title started with --->> "exists" is a bottleneck for dispatch and package loading, ... Peter proposed an extra simplified and henc faster version of exists(), and I commented > --- Comment #2