Hi everyone,
I have a question.
Given the address of an object ("address" in the sense given by, for example,
"data.table::address()"), is it possible to check if any binding in any
environment pointing to that address is locked?
So a function similar to "bindingIsLocked()", except the function checks all
bindings sharing the same address, instead of checking a binding by name in a
specific environment.
One use-case for this is to check if it's save to modify an object by reference.
For example, when saying x <- base::letters, x is not save to modify by
reference:
Although the binding of x itself is not locked, the binding of base::letters is
locked, and we obviously don't want to modify base::letters.
It should be possible, I think. R has a few pass-by-reference classes (like
environments), so R should be able to check something like this. I just have no
idea how exactly R checks this.
Thanks in advance for any response!
Kind regards,
Tony
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