-> is usually only used when you suddenly remember you wanted to keep
result of a computation, especially in the days before command-line
editors were universal.
fn(a,b) ... oh I'd better keep that ... -> z
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Dan Kelley wrote:
I have never used -> but I noticed at
http://github.com/jiho/r-utils/blob/master/beamer_colors.R
that some people do.
In fact, the above-named code has a sort of elegance about it
(except
for the use of "=" for assignment...). To my eye, -> calls to mind a type of assignment that is meant to stand out. For example, perhaps it would make sense to use -> to assign to things that are not expected to vary through the rest of the code block.
Q1: is there a convention, informal or otherwise, on when to use the ->
operator?
Q2: if there is no convention, but if people think a convention might help,
what would that convention be?
Dan Kelley, PhD
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Dept. Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS B3H 4J1
kelley....@gmail.com (1-minute path on US server) or dan.kel...@dal.ca (2-hour
path on Cdn server)
Phone 902 494 1694; Fax 902 494 3877
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