On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:39:52PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > >> getwd()proc.time() > StEgl> Error: syntax error Execution halted $ > > aahh, now I finally understand via some people append > those **ugly** unneeded ';' to the end of almost every line of R > code. It would have helped here > :-) :-)
What is the problem with the semicolons? Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder, evidently, but on a more objective level, terminating statements by an explicit and visible separator seems like a very reasonable idea to me. > StEgl> Is it worth changing the BATCH script so that it adds > StEgl> a newline before adding the call to proc.time()? > > Yes I think it would be. This is trivial, at least for > <Rsrc>/src/scripts/BATCH > Slightly better but more tricky: only append a newline "when needed". > Any idea for that? I think this is a dangerous direction of thought. Having a "terminator if apparently needed" semantics of newline has already brought us the inconsistency of if / else parsing inside and outside of blocks. No more of that, please. Best regards, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | *NEW* email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | *NEW* WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
