[R] How to comment in R

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So if the behaviour isn't very obvious in cases like the one quoted
>>> above, and if the new syntax doesn't add any new expressiveness, I
>>> would be opposed to adding it.
>>
>> what about cases where the syntax is 'obvious' and yet r does the
>> opposite of what one would expect?
>
> We shouldn't add features like that either.  In some cases we have (or
> S did), and the thousands of CRAN packages mean we're stuck with most
> of them.

the curse of popularity?

vQ