I think the flaw in this reasoning is that programmers are not considered users. IMO, making a better language is beneficial for users.
I am now watching how a new colleague of mine, a very good C++ programmer turning into a data miner, is struggling w/ many "irregularities" of R. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:39 AM > To: Rod Montgomery > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] R annoyances > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Rod Montgomery wrote: > > Thomas Lumley wrote: > >> This one is actually a FAQ, > >> mtx[,1,drop=FALSE] > >> > >> -thomas > >> > > I wonder whether there is, or should be, a way to set FALSE > as the default? > > > > There shouldn't be (apart from editing the code), because you > really don't want something this basic to be unpredictable. > > There have been discussions at several times about whether > drop=FALSE or drop=TRUE should be the default. The decision > has always been that programmers can cope either way, but > that users probably don't expect mtx[,1] to be a vector, and > that they definitely don't expect mtx[1,1] to be a matrix. > > -thomas > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
