[datatable-help] Crash on improperly formed Assignment by Reference

[Matthew Dowle]

Agreed, thank you.

Please file a new bug.report(package="data.table"). This way you'll get
automatically notified when the status changes.

> Matt,
>
> Just wanted to report that the following causes a crash,
>
> library(data.table) # 1.8.2
> n <- 1e6
> dt <- data.table( c1=1:n )
> dt[,`:=`(c2=1L:n,  c3=sample(LETTERS, size= n, replace = TRUE)),
> with=FALSE
> ]
>
> It is, no doubt, improperly formed; yet should it be captured prior to a
> crash?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Thell
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