I've noticed an increasing tendency for people to use '=' rather than
the older '-' symbol. When '=' became available as an assignment
operator in S-PLUS in the late '90s my first reaction was to switch to
it as well. Brian Ripley warned me that it was not a good idea. As
usual he was right,
Bill.Venables at csiro.au writes:
I've noticed an increasing tendency for people to use '=' rather than
the older '-' symbol. When '=' became available as an assignment
operator in S-PLUS in the late '90s my first reaction was to switch to
it as well. Brian Ripley warned me that it was
On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Ben Bolker wrote:
Bill.Venables at csiro.au writes:
I've noticed an increasing tendency for people to use '=' rather than
the older '-' symbol. When '=' became available as an assignment
operator in S-PLUS in the late '90s my first reaction was to
switch to
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