> That's two different issues: > >> y <- list() >> y$... <- 2 >> y$..2 <- 3 >> y$break <- 4 > Error: unexpected 'break' in "y$break" > > Notice that there is nothing _syntactically_ wrong with ... & friends as > names: > >> quote(...<-4) > ... <- 4 > > It's the _evaluator_ that throws the error because the ...-name has a special > interpretation.
Oh good point. Thanks for the clarification. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
