Hi Carl, Well, we already have (newobject <- somefunction()), so <p- would only save a single keystroke at best, and none if you use an editor that auto-closes parentheses...
Best, Ista On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Carl Witthoft <c...@witthoft.com> wrote: > I was cursing Matlab again today (what else is new) because the default > action for every Matlab command is to spew the result to the console, and > one must remember to put that darn ";" at the end of every line. > > So I just wondered: was there ever a discussion as to providing some > modified version of the "<-" and "->" operators in R to do the reverse? > That is, since R does not print the values of a command to the console, > what if there were an operator such that > > > newobject <p- somefunction() > > would do the same as > > print(newobject <- somefunction()) > > > Any thoughts? > Carl > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
