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

[Hervé Pagès]

On 05/01/2013 12:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 01/05/2013 1:34 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote:
>> +1 to having runnable code emitted
>
> It does emit runnable code, which is why Herve's complaint was
> nonsense.  It doesn't emit code of which every substring is runnable.

Perdon me, but I was not of course suggesting that every substring be
runnable. That would be non-sense. So please, don't make me say what
I didn't say. Thank you!

H.

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> patch seems to work nicely, hopefully R-core will agree to apply it to
>> HEAD
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Whoa.
>> >
>> > Don't let my valuable suggestion get lost.
>> >
>> >  I want "} else {".  Yihue wants "} else {".  And I have not heard
>> anybody
>> > say they prefer the other way, unless you interpret Duncan's comment
>> > "that's nonsense" as a blanket defense of the status quo. But I
>> don't think
>> > he meant that.  This is a matter of style consistency and avoidance
>> of new
>> > R-user confusion and error.
>> >
>> > After reading the help for "if", I don't see how anybody can argue
>> against
>> > this.  Good R code has this style:
>> >
>> > } else {
>> >
>> > and not
>> >
>> > }
>> >  else
>> >
>> > because the latter fails if it is run line-by-line.  While trying to
>> teach
>> > people how to write R programs, it would be nice if the output of
>> > print.function was consistent with the good way, the way that is
>> actually
>> > practiced in the R source code itself. This is a major source of new
>> > programmer confusion. Its very tough to explain and teach.
>> >
>> > pj
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