[R] Lexical scoping is not what I expect

[Hadley Wickham]

> I too find R's lexical scoping rules straightforward.
> However, I'd say that if your code relies on lexical scoping to find something, you should probably rewrite your code.

Except of course that almost every function relies on lexical scoping
to some extent!

Do you want:

f <- function(a, b) a + b

or

f <- function(a, b, plus) plus(a, b)

?

;)

Hadley


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