[datatable-help] FR #748 discussion

[Eduard Antonyan]

Good point - I had forgotten about that, and I still do like that proposal!
:)


On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Arunkumar Srinivasan <aragorn168b at gmail.com
> wrote:

>  Eddi,
> Gabor's suggestions here:
> http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2013-May/001738.html are
> quite nice! We did agree with those changes at the time :). I'll have to
> write to Matthew to get his feedback.
>
> Arun
>
> On Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Eduard Antonyan wrote:
>
> Great, this is smth I was thinking about recently as well.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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