On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > I am firmly in the 'Don't do '=' for assignment, ever' camp. > > | Is there any real downside to this habit? It came up at the BioC > | conference developer day this year and was more or less immediately > | dismissed. > > Just say no.
For the sake of posterity, I'd say those deserves "because..." clauses. (I have my own pros/cons list, but I'm still not totally confident in broadcasting them.) Curious mind inquire. Though offtopic, I do think it's a reasonable question here for folks trying to map/leverage their knowledge of R onto C++. To my knowledge there's no equivalent of the -> construct in C++, for example. -Christian -- A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal – Panama! _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel