Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >>> >>> So if the behaviour isn't very obvious in cases like the one quoted >>> above, and if the new syntax doesn't add any new expressiveness, I >>> would be opposed to adding it. >> >> what about cases where the syntax is 'obvious' and yet r does the >> opposite of what one would expect? > > We shouldn't add features like that either. In some cases we have (or > S did), and the thousands of CRAN packages mean we're stuck with most > of them.
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