On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 20:11:17 -0600 (CST) luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: > We did try a number of variations; the code is in the R-syntax branch. > At the root of that branch are two .md files with some notes as of > around useR20.
Thanks for the information! Can I make a suggestion? If the variation of the pipe that allows a symbol on the RHS to be interpreted as the name of a function to call does get chosen, may it also allow fully-qualified symbols? Index: src/main/gram.y =================================================================== --- src/main/gram.y (revision 79567) +++ src/main/gram.y (working copy) @@ -1242,7 +1242,11 @@ if (GenerateCode) { /* allow for symbols or lambda expressions */ if (TYPEOF(rhs) == SYMSXP || - TYPEOF(rhs) == LANGSXP && CAR(rhs) == R_FunctionSymbol) + TYPEOF(rhs) == LANGSXP && ( + CAR(rhs) == R_FunctionSymbol || + CAR(rhs) == R_DoubleColonSymbol || + CAR(rhs) == R_TripleColonSymbol + )) return lang2(rhs, lhs); if (TYPEOF(rhs) != LANGSXP) Or is this feature creep? -- Best regards, Ivan P.S. This lambda function is waving at us: \ (O,o) `/` ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel