Re: [R] Precedence and parentheses

2014-05-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/05/2014 2:09 PM, Göran Broström wrote: A thread on r-devel ("Historical NA question") went (finally) off-topic, heading towards "Precedence". This triggered a question that I think is better put on this list: I have been more or less regularly been writing programs since the seventies (For

Re: [R] Precedence and parentheses

2014-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 06-May-2014 18:09:12 Göran Broström wrote: > A thread on r-devel ("Historical NA question") went (finally) off-topic, > heading towards "Precedence". This triggered a question that I think is > better put on this list: > > I have been more or less regularly been writing programs since the >

[R] Precedence and parentheses

2014-05-06 Thread Göran Broström
A thread on r-devel ("Historical NA question") went (finally) off-topic, heading towards "Precedence". This triggered a question that I think is better put on this list: I have been more or less regularly been writing programs since the seventies (Fortran, later C) and I early got the habit of