On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk>wrote:
> > There is at least one context where the distinction must be > preserved. Example: > > pnorm(1.5) > # [1] 0.9331928 > pnorm(x=1.5) > # Error in pnorm(x = 1.5) : unused argument(s) (x = 1.5) > pnorm(x<-1.5) > # [1] 0.9331928 > x > # [1] 1.5 > > Ted. > > I would regard modifying a variable within the parameters of a function call as pretty tasteless. What does: foo(x<-2,x) or foo(x,x<-3) do that couldn't be done clearer with two lines of code? Remember: 'eschew obfuscation'. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
