Re: [R] static vs. lexical scope

2019-10-20 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello everyone again, I much appreciated the explanations. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:02:42AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Maybe the Introduction should link to it (or similar page) with text > "In case you are interest in the difference between static and lexical > sco

[R] static vs. lexical scope

2019-09-25 Thread Francesco Ariis
Dear R users/developers, while ploughing through "An Introduction to R" [1], I found the expression "static scope" (in contraposition to "lexical scope"). I was a bit puzzled by the difference (since e.g. Wikipedia conflates the two) until I found this document [2]. Maybe the Introduction should

Re: [R] The "--slave" option

2019-09-19 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:14:44PM +1200, Richard O'Keefe wrote: > The one thing "slave" does not mean in technology is any kind of human > being. At risk of repeating what someone else said, we are most likely not dealing with a human but with a "supernatural being, often represented as of diminu