On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Paul Lemmens wrote:
> I'm trying to grasp this: if you're saying (or are you saying) that the
> only way to have if() know that an else will be present is to put it on the
> same line as the closing curly brace of the if() (compound) statement. But
> if I look at some code from, e.g., aov and lm, I see plenty violations of
> that rule.
The actual rule is given in my reference (the one that Ben Bolker did not
bother to look up) earlier in this thread.
You need to ensure that the code is syntactically incomplete when `else'
is encountered. That will always be true inside a braced expression such
as the bodies of the functions you quote. But at top-level, you do need
to write
if(condition) something else something_else
or
if(condition) {
} else {
}
since
if(condition) {
}
else {
}
fails the test.
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