[Rcpp-devel] overloading = operator

[Romain François]

Hi,

On the subject of getting some convenience stuff into Rcpp, what about 
overloading the = operator and do for example something like this :

std::string& operator= ( const SEXP& robject  );
std::vector<std::string>& operator= ( const SEXP& robject );

and so on. so that we could have .

SEXP foobar( SEXP foo, SEXP bar){
	std::string foo_string = foo ;
  	// ...
}

The implementations would have to take care of the TYPEOF's but it might 
be a good way of doing it.

Romain

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