Le jeudi 18 mars 2010 à 15:49 -0400, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
> On 18/03/2010 3:10 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> > An old (Lisp ? C ?) quote, whose author escapes me now, was :
> >
> > "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon"
> >
> > .. but nowadays semicolons are rarely used in "real
PL1 used semi-colons, therefore so does SAS (Yes, SAS was originally written
in PL1).
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On 18/03/2010 3:10 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
An old (Lisp ? C ?) quote, whose author escapes me now, was :
"syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon"
.. but nowadays semicolons are rarely used in "real-life" R.
Emmanuel Charpentier
PS and, B
An old (Lisp ? C ?) quote, whose author escapes me now, was :
"syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon"
.. but nowadays semicolons are rarely used in "real-life" R.
Emmanuel Charpentier
PS and, BTW, neither C nor Lisp have much use for semicolons..
-> is usually only used when you suddenly remember you wanted to keep
result of a computation, especially in the days before command-line
editors were universal.
fn(a,b) ... oh I'd better keep that ... -> z
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Dan Kelley wrote:
I have never used -> but I noticed at
On 18/03/2010 7:08 AM, Dan Kelley wrote:
I have never used -> but I noticed at
http://github.com/jiho/r-utils/blob/master/beamer_colors.R
that some people do. In fact, the above-named code has a sort of elegance about it (except for
the use of "=" for assignment...). To my eye,
I have never used -> but I noticed at
http://github.com/jiho/r-utils/blob/master/beamer_colors.R
that some people do. In fact, the above-named code has a sort of elegance
about it (except for the use of "=" for assignment...). To my eye, -> calls
to mind a type of assignment th
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