Not anything that complicated -- your answer is in the R language
definition under 'Subset assignment' and the part in "Function calls" that
describes assignment functions.
Whenever a call is found on the left side of a `<-`, it is munged by
sticking a "<-" on the function name and pulling out the first argument. So
my_list$x <- x
which is syntactically equivalent to
`$`(my_list, x) <- x
is effectively transformed into something like:
my_list <- `$<-`(my_list, x, x)
The function `$<-` gets its argument from wherever it is found, and returns
a modified version.
Peter
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