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</div><div>Gabor's suggestions here: <a href="http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2013-May/001738.html">http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2013-May/001738.html</a> are quite nice! We did agree with those changes at the time :). I'll have to write to Matthew to get his feedback.</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Eduard Antonyan wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><p dir="ltr">Great, this is smth I was thinking about recently as well.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I do find nomatch=TRUE/FALSE confusing and keep.nomatch is better in that respect, but that's a lot more characters to type, which downgrades it for me a lot.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think in a world where I was designing it from scratch I would have nomatch=NA do what it does now, nomatch=NULL do what 0 does now, and then the rest of the values would fill. Not sure if this can be done smoothly though in the world we live in.<br>
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