>
> I do not think it is a reasonable suggestion. The reasons a::b and
> a:::b were made to work is that many users read these as a single
> symbol, not a call to a binary operator. So supporting this helped to
> reduce confusion.
>
Conceptually, the same is true for `a$b` when `a` is used as an
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2023, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I think there isn't a way to make this work other than calling `is.na<-`
explicitly:
x <- b$`is.na<-`(x, TRUE)
Replacement functions are not intended to be called directly. Calling
a replacement function directly may produce an error, or may just
