On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:00 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> Well... also, the meaning in R is quite a bit different from any of the > meanings suggested by Wolfram. In fact, although the most common use in R > is "depends on", it's technically just a generic delayed evaluation without > any inherent semantics at all. Or, that is to say, tilde is just a certain > kind of quotation, and we already have quotation in Python. > Hm, that's actually an interesting take. Can you compare it to the kind of "quoting" that happens in a lambda? Is there some kind of translation of the OP's original example (Lottery ~ Literacy + Wealth + Region) to a lambda involving those words? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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