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2008 Nov 11
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R design (was "Variable passed to function not used in function in select)
I've read the back and forth this morning, and I have to side with Vince.
1. Functions that re-interpret their arguments are very dangerous. The
original question involved a well formed call to a function, which returned the
wrong answer. Bug, design flaw, whatever -- it's a mistake and the best choice
would be to fix it.
I only consider such behavior in 2 cases:
a. when the