Contructs of form `dt[, a := b$c()]` fail (data.table version 1.9.3). A more detailed example taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25383110 would be ``` RF <- setRefClass( Class = "RF", methods = list( get = function() { "/foo/bar" } ) ) rf <- RF$new() mdt <- data.table( x= c("a", "b"), y = 1:2 ) mdt[ , z := rf$get() ] # gives warning mdt$z ```