Make network base class an environment?
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Start by reviewing the current implementation of network modifiers and how they capture and reassign expressions from calling functions. Assess whether making the network base class an environment avoids inconsistent modification behavior for passed or expression-produced objects; done means the approach is specified and its behavior is validated.
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Description
The current implementation of modifiers for network objects attempts to modify it in place, emulating behaviour of C++, Java, and Python classes, and R6 classes in R. This is accomplished by gabbing the expression for the network from the calling function and then assigning to it at the end if possible. This is quite kludgey, and may produce inconsistent or unpredictable behaviour, say, when a network object is passed to a function and modified there, or when a network is produced by an expression.
This may be possible to avoid using the same approach as R6 classes: whereas R lists are copied on modification, R environments are always references and need to be copied explicitly. Thus, if a network base class is an environment, changes to it will always change it in place automatically.
- Dominant language
- R
- Stars
- 20
- Forks
- 7
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
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