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2011 May 27
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Reference Classes/S4 Classes: can method dispatch check superclasses BEFORE resorting to method for "ANY"?
Dear list,
is it possible that method dispatch checks for superclasses/virtual
classes before checking "ANY"?
I'd like to build a generic initialization method for all my Reference
Class (say "MyDataFrame") objects by having them inherit from class, say
"MyRefClassVirtual" (which would have to be a virtual S4 class; there
are no virtual Reference Classes, are there?)
The problem is that 'getRefClass("MyDataFrame")$new' calls (I think) the
method that was written for "ANY". Thus even though I write a explicit
initialize method f...