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...are not protected from "return by reference" damage. Right? Why doesn't the documentation recommend function writers to mark arguments to C functions as const? Isn't that what the return by value policy would suggest? Here's a troublesome example in R src/main/array.c: /* DropDims strips away redundant dimensioning information. */ /* If there is an appropriate dimnames attribute the correct */ /* element is extracted and attached to the vector as a names */ /* attribute. Note that this function mutates x. */ /* Duplication should occur before this is called. */ SEXP DropDi...