+ ## horrendous KLUDGE: we need to short-circuit here for "name"
+ ## objects, rather than having a nice uniform behaviour, because
+ ## for expressions of the form x[y,] there is an empty "name"
+ ## which ends up becoming a `missing' object when passed through
+ ## the switch; why, I do not know, but it is then impossible to
+ ## return it, because returning it attempts to evaluate it and
+ ## evaluating it is an error. Fortunately it appears that names
+ ## don't have srcrefs attached.
+ if(mode(s) == "name") {
+ return(s)
+ }