On 11/8/2007 1:26 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> hadley wickham wrote:
>
>> You're assuming an automatic cast from numbers into strings? What if
>> a + "4" threw an error?
>
> What's wrong with commas anyway when using cat():
>
> > cat("x is ",x,' and y is ',y,'\n',sep='')
> x is 1 and y is 2
Nothing wrong when using cat(), but we sometimes need to compute strings
when we aren't using cat().
> and there's always sprintf() for those moments when you want neat
> formatting.
That's good when you want good control over the formatting, but it
doesn't tend to be all that readable, with the variables all listed at
the end, instead of in between the bits of string.
>
> Is it just me who thinks it's odd that in a language that is umpteen
> years old we are still discussing the fundamentals of what essentially
> makes up the 'hello world' example?
Maybe.
Duncan
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