Writing R in a declarative style a la functional programming makes this whole
thread go away since you don't need if/else blocks.
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Brian Lee Yung Rowe
On May 2, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Terry Therneau <thern...@mayo.edu> wrote:
> I'll be the "anybody" to argue that
> } else {
> is an ugly kludge which you will never find in my source code. Yes, it's
> necessary at the command line because the parser needs help in guessing when
> an expression is finished, but is only needed in that case. Since I can
> hardly imagine using else at the command line (that many correct characters
> in a row exceeds my typing skill) it's not an issue for me. I most certainly
> would not inflict this construction on my pupils when teaching a class, nor
> that any break of a long line has to be after "+" but not before, nor other
> crutches for the parser's sake. Let them know about the special case of
> course, but don't sacrifice good coding style the deficiency.
>
> That said, I am completely ambivalent to the result of deparse. Just
> throwing up an objection to the "purity" argument: things were beginning to
> sound a bit too bombastic :-).
>
> Terry T.
>
> On 05/02/2013 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote:
>> 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.
>
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