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by eden_h
2360 days ago
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>Not totally related, but R has a great polymorphic dispatch of functions, Dispatch in R is generally fine, but I see a great deal of UseMethod calls, and switch statements for types in the libraries I've worked with, which OTOH is just users using tools badly, but OTO R should enforce using a particular tool to solve problems. And R is particularly bad at enforcing anything, which is why we're left with S3, S4, and R6. There's also the FFI issue across the board for Python/R where functions frequently barely clean naked FFI calls and leave it a complete mystery what's going on under the hood. I think R is generally worse at it though, where I've had memory leaks and sigterms that aren't visible in RStudio. I do like the functional programming though. I had an excuse to use multi.argument.Compose from the functional library recently and it made me wish I had things like that to hand in all languages |
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