On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 11:03, Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote: > > Dear R users/developers, > while ploughing through "An Introduction to R" [1], I found the > expression "static scope" (in contraposition to "lexical scope"). > > I was a bit puzzled by the difference (since e.g. Wikipedia conflates the > two) until I found this document [2].
I sometimes teach a little R, and they might ask about static/lexical scope. My short answer is normally that S uses static scoping and R uses lexical scoping. And most all modern languages uses lexical scoping. So if they know Java, C, C# etc. then the scoping rules for R are the same. I finally says that it is not a full answer but enough for most. Regards Martin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
