I am more than a little puzzled by your question. In the construct {expr1; expr2; expr3} all of the expressions expr1, expr2, and expr3 are evaluated, in that order. That's what curly braces are FOR. When you want some expressions evaluated in a specific order, that's why and when you use curly braces. If that's not what you want, don't use them. Complaining about it is like complaining that + adds.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 03:47, akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear members, > I have the following code: > > > TB <- {x <- 3;y <- 5} > > TB > [1] 5 > > It is consistent with the documentation: For {, the result of the last > expression evaluated. This has the visibility of the last evaluation. > > But both x AND y are created, but the "return value" is y. How can this be > advantageous for solving practical problems? Specifically, consider the > following code: > > F <- function(X) { expr; expr2; { expr5; expr7}; expr8;expr10} > > Both expr5 and expr7 are created, and are accessible by the code outside > of the nested braces right? But the "return value" of the nested braces is > expr7. So doesn't this mean that only expr7 should be accessible? Please > help me entangle this (of course the return value of F is expr10, and all > the other objects created by the preceding expressions are deleted. But > expr5 is not, after the control passes outside of the nested braces!) > > Thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.