[R] Can we get rid of && and ||?

[GB]

Brian,

thanks for your comments. I have only one question/remark:

[snip]
> > Provided there are no other differences, I suggest that either
> > 
> > a) '&&'  is made obsolete, and  '&'  is 'improved' so that  b  in
> >    'a & b' is evaluated only if some component of  a  is TRUE, or
> 
> That would break S compatibility and a lot of correctly written code
> (including in R itself).

I meant keeping  '&&'  for precisely that reason, but changing  '&'  as
indicated, so that new code never had to consider '&&'. So, I made two
assumptions here: (i) Old code (or S code) will not be disturbed by the
'improvement' of  '&'; (ii) New code can always use '&' instead of '&&'.

Of course, if either assumption is wrong, the idea is not so good.

Göran
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