Hi,
I'm having trouble seeing the added value over functions defined by setGeneric
vis-a-vis
methods defined by inheritance and polymorphism. setGeneric offers a 'clean'
call to a generic function, ie. no need to call new(), so less typing to do for
the user. But such explicit calls can also be avoided by functions like f <-
function(x, y) new(Class = SomeClass, x=x, y=y). Then again, R relies heavily
on method dispatching, so it must have clear advantages.
*confused* Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks in advance!
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
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