Thank you, Luke, once again. >> [snipped away my original message; to be found on >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045219.html]
>> Or did I get something wrong? > > I think you did. You seem to be thinking in terms of dynamic scope, > which looks for variables in the caller and then the caller's caller. > > Lexical scope addresses exactly this problem. In lexical scope > variable references are resolved on the basis of how function > definitions are nested in the written code (hence the term lexical). > If you define myH inside myF then free variables in myH are looked up > first in myF and then in the context where myF is defined. How myH is > called does not matter. Nested functions in Pascal work the same way > if that helps. OK got it. I should have known this. I am pretty much embarrassed to have bothered you. Thanks again for your help Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
