re: Infile ; R

[Rick Riolo]

I can understand your position regarding changing the 
existing methods for InFile.  

I would suggest at the least the next release of the refmanual
say something at the top of the page for things like Infile
to warn users away from using them.
Why?   Because its a real pain for new users to figure
out what is and what isn't "advisable" to use in new development.
Students I have look through the refmanual (as I suggest) to
find classes that do what they need, only to learn 
(after hours of struggle maybe) that something isn't very
useful and is not (basically) supported, and that
the swarm team is recommending some other approach
(to file input, for example).

On a related topic --- re R: you said:
> 2. First, run R, the version at:
> ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/support-software

Are the changes in this version going to make it back into
the main distribution of R, or are we going to have to 
(potentially) support two versions of R for the indefinite future?

- r

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On 7 Feb 1999, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Date: 07 Feb 1999 12:21:45 -0800
> From: Marcus G. Daniels <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Is this a Bug in InFile getDouble (& other InFile get* methods)?
> 
> >>>>> "RLR" == Rick Riolo <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> RLR> The doc says "In case of failure,
> RLR> the method returns 0."  What is considered a failure?  Just EOF?
> 
> Right.  I'd change that but these simtools stream classes have been
> that way long enough that folks have probably come to depend on their
> idiosyncrasies.  For new development, I advise against use of these
> (cretinous) features.
> 
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