Class "signature" For Method Definitions

Description

This class represents the mapping of some of the formal arguments of a function onto the names of some classes. It is used as one of two slots in the MethodDefinition class.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("signature", functionDef, ...). The functionDef argument, if it is supplied as a function object, defines the formal names. The other arguments define the classes.

Slots

.Data:

Object of class "character" the classes.

names:

Object of class "character" the corresponding argument names.

Extends

Class "character", from data part. Class "vector", by class "character".

Methods

initialize

signature(object = "signature"): see the discussion of objects from the class, above.

See Also

class MethodDefinition for the use of this class.