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List:       r-devel
Subject:    Re: [Rd] RFC:  What should ?foo do?
From:       Patrick Burns <pburns () pburns ! seanet ! com>
Date:       2008-04-27 10:44:36
Message-ID: 48145914.8020909 () pburns ! seanet ! com
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>   
>> I haven't done it, but I suspect we could introduce special behaviour 
>> for ??foo very easily.  We could even have a whole hierarchy:
>>
>> ?foo, ??foo, ???foo, ????foo, ...
>>
>>   
>>     
> Heh, that's rather nice, actually. In words, that could read
>
> ?foo: tell me about foo!
> ??foo: what can you tell me about foo?
> ???foo: what can you tell me about things like foo?
> ????foo: I don't know what I'm looking for but it might be something
> related foo?
>   

I quite like this.  It seems very intuitive to me -- just match
the number of question marks to the level of my frustration.

Pat
> You do have to be careful about messing with ?, though. I think many
> people, including me, would pretty quickly go nuts if ?par suddenly
> didn't work the way we're used to.
>
>

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