[R] How to modify the body of a function?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Well, he did say it was his opinion. Goto has been pretty effectively eliminated from modern programming languages, while return has not.

IMHO the nature of the return statement resembles exception handling more than normal control flow... so I avoid using it. Exceptions are exceptional, and normal control flow leads to the end of the function.
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On July 27, 2014 11:12:54 AM PDT, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>On 7/27/2014 10:34 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
>> This is a real hack, but you can redefine return in your function:
>>> f <- function() {
>> +     return("early return")
>> +     "last value in function"
>> + }
>>> f()
>> [1] "early return"
>>> f <- function() {
>> +     return <- function(x)x
>> +     return("early return")
>> +     "last value in function"
>> + }
>>> f()
>> [1] "last value in function"
>>
>> IMO, well written functions do not have return statements in them. 
>They
>> are the equivalent of goto statements.
>
>
>       Is that a fortune or something hotly contested?
>
>
>      I can understand the sentiment, and I'd like to know if there is 
>research behind this?  I understand that "goto" was eliminated from 
>modern languages precisely because research indicated it was a major 
>source of problems.  This may seem related, but I'd like to see the
>data 
>if anyone knows of such.  I've used "return" in the middle of functions
>
>to avoid an extra "else" layer after an "if". This may not be smart. 
>I'd like to know how stupid it is ;-)
>
>
>       Thanks for the comment.
>
>
>       Spencer
>
>> Bill Dunlap
>> TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:41 AM, super <desolator88 at 163.com> wrote:
>>> Suppose that I had a function as below:
>>> f<-function() {
>>> return(1)
>>> }
>>> i want to change the body of f  to the form like this:
>>> f<-function(){
>>> 1
>>> function() {}
>>> }
>>> How can i do the task using body(f) or something else solutions?
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