[R] using ``<-'' in function argument

[Ivan Calandra]

Le 12/3/2010 11:35, Berwin A Turlach a écrit :
> G'day Ivan,
>
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:54:58 +0100
> Ivan Calandra<ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de>  wrote:
>
>> Arf, yes it makes sense now!
> Well, my original post said: "R has lazy evaluation" and "the
> assignment takes place when the function evaluates the argument" :)
Well you did say it indeed... but it doesn't mean that I understood it, 
I needed more details to grasp it!
>> So the idea here is: never use "<-" in function argument...
> Never say never. :)
>
> But if you want to perform a (global) assignment within an actual
> argument to a function, you should better be sure that the
> formal argument gets evaluated.  In fact, this trick is probably a good
> way, short of studying the source, to find out whether an argument gets
> evaluated or not (or only occasionally).
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Berwin
>

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