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https://docs.ropensci.org/binomen
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clazz? #9

Open zachary-foster opened 8 years ago

zachary-foster commented 8 years ago

Minor question. There are multiple occurrences of clazz in the README.md. Should this be "class", or are you trying to avoid using the reserved word "class"?

sckott commented 8 years ago

good catch, but yeah, trying to avoid class - most importantly i think cause of the fxn class() in base R, but also cause class is a reserved word in SQL databases (though that's not too relevant here)

zachary-foster commented 8 years ago

ahh, ok, that makes sense. Just thought I would check.

sckott commented 8 years ago

interested to hear how using this goes, haven't used it a whole lot IRL

zachary-foster commented 8 years ago

Ok, i will let you know once I play around with it a bit more. I want a taxonomy class system for my metacoder package. I already have a system I like that is not class-based. On first glance, it seems fundamentally different that what is implemented here, but I would not mind adapting to binomen if it can fit my needs. I would like to avoid spawning my own classes if others exist to avoid cluttering the R ecosystem if possible.