[R] functional (?) programming in r

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk
<Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
> i haven't seen any docs page that would explain such cases, so it's hard
> to judge for me.  this might be an unforeseen side effect of the
> intended behaviour of the promise mechanism.

The R Language Definition manual that comes with R has a section on promises.