Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<Martin wrote re dropping unquoted function args from packages/data>
>> Definitely not worth the pain (I *know* I'd hear ... comments from >> them!)!
I might be one of them. You'll hear my screams for weeks...
> Actually, I do think it is worth the pain. The way I understand it, we > have a strategic decision to gradually eliminate non-standard eval.
and for better or worse, I actually agree with Kurt. Most languages don't let you do non-standard eval regularly, and in R/S, it is used "regularly". I don't think that the added complexity is worth the convenience of saving 2 keystrokes.
For what it's worth, I'd add my voice to Kurt and Tony. Even though I've been an S user for 17 years, I still find it weird that
poisson(link=log)
works but
a <- "log"; poisson(link=a)
doesn't given that the help doc says
poisson(link="log")
Gordon
best, -tony
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