On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And for completeness here's a function that returns the next integer
> on each call.
>
> n <- (function(){
> i <- 0
> function() {
> i <<- i + 1
> i
> }
> })()
>
>> n()
> [1] 1
>> n()
> [1] 2
>> n()
> [1] 3
>> n()
> [1] 4
>> n()
> [1] 5
>> n()
> [1] 6
>
>
> ;)
>
> Hadley
>
*headache*!
I can't wrap my head around this one - too strange code!
Could someone please give a hint on what's going on?
How does"i<<- i+1" modify i permanently, seeing as i is defined as 0
to start with?
/Gustaf
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