[R] about the char _

[JRG]

Date sent:      	Sat, 06 Oct 2001 00:05:22 +1200
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From:           	Murray Jorgensen <maj at waikato.ac.nz>
Subject:        	Re: [R] about the char _

> Just one small point: the assignment symbol must be about the most commonly
> used symbol in any computer language. Yet in R and S+ it is represented by
> a two-character string with, moreover, a change in case! 

Members of the Pascal family have that same quirk [there, 
assignment is  :=  ].  I admit to being a lazy typist (as have others 
here), and that quirk used to annoy me.  But I'd expect that most R 
code actually gets written in someone's favorite editor, and that 
that editor almost certainly has the ability to define the string "<-" 
as a keyboard macro.  That's how I learned to live with ":=" 
through several incarnations of Pascal.

---JRG


I won't mind
> giving up underscore as an assignment if an alternate single character,
> preerably lower-case symbol is made available. Trouble is, I can't think of
> anything!
> 
> Murray Jorgensen
> 
> 
> Dr Murray Jorgensen       http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html 
> Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 
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