+1 to having runnable code emitted
patch seems to work nicely, hopefully R-core will agree to apply it to HEAD
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoa.
>
> Don't let my valuable suggestion get lost.
>
> I want "} else {". Yihue wants "} else {". And I have not heard anybody
> say they prefer the other way, unless you interpret Duncan's comment
> "that's nonsense" as a blanket defense of the status quo. But I don't think
> he meant that. This is a matter of style consistency and avoidance of new
> R-user confusion and error.
>
> After reading the help for "if", I don't see how anybody can argue against
> this. Good R code has this style:
>
> } else {
>
> and not
>
> }
> else
>
> because the latter fails if it is run line-by-line. While trying to teach
> people how to write R programs, it would be nice if the output of
> print.function was consistent with the good way, the way that is actually
> practiced in the R source code itself. This is a major source of new
> programmer confusion. Its very tough to explain and teach.
>
> pj
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