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

[Hervé Pagès]

On 04/18/2013 11:41 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> I second the change of "} else {".

Me too. Note that print.function() will screw it only if you use
useSource=FALSE:

   > print.function(foo3, useSource=FALSE)
   function ()
   {
     if (FALSE) {
         letters
     }
     else {
         LETTERS
     }
   }

Otherwise, everything is fine:

   > print.function(foo3)
   function()
   {
     if (FALSE) {
         letters  # some comment
     } else {
         LETTERS
     }
   }

I can't see of any reason why useSource=FALSE would screw my nicely
formatted 'if' statement though. This formatting is ugly, unnecessarily
uses 1 more line, and the 'if' statement cannot be copy/pasted into an
interactive session anymore. So, in a way, you could even consider
this is invalid code.

Thanks,
H.

>
> 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:
>>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 05:39 , Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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`(....).
>>>
>>> Besides, both constructs are harder to read without the spaces.
>>>
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>>
>>
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