[Rd] Patch proposal for R style consistency (concerning deparse.c)

[Yihui Xie]

I second the change of "} else {".

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I concede that.
>
> Now, how about "} else {"
>
> I will provide patch that does only that change.
> ?
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:05 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 05:39 , Paul Johnson wrote:
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>>> 2 & 3. I want to omit space after if and for.   Since if and for are
>>> functions in R, not keywords, I suggest that there should not be a
>>> space before the opening parentheses.
>>
>> Wrong. They are part of language constructs (and they _are_ keywords, not names, that's why ?for won't work). The function calls are `if`(fee, {foo}, {fie}) and something rebarbative for `for`(....).
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>> Besides, both constructs are harder to read without the spaces.
>>
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