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R's data.table package extends data.frame:
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deprecate programming interfaces: get, mget, eval #5886

Open jangorecki opened 10 months ago

jangorecki commented 10 months ago

Personally I am very firmly after backward compatibility (therefore adding to 2.0.0 milestone), but just noticed quite a list of open issues caused by legacy programming interfaces (get, mget, eval). I doubt below list is complete.

Bugs in special handling of scoping for variables

Special handling of scoping variable bugs during real/standard use of eval()

Possibly bug introduced by special handling of eval()

MichaelChirico commented 10 months ago

I would be open to deprecating these sooner than 2.0.0, but we definitely need to let the new programming interface mature for some time (e.g. 2-4 releases) before going that route.