Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> Use <- for assignment, and = for function arguments. Then the
> difference between
>
> f( a = 3 )
> f( a <- 3 )
>
> is clear, and you won't be surprised that a gets changed in the second
> case. If you use = for assignment, the two lines above will be
> written as
>
> f( a = 3 )
> f( ( a = 3 ) )
>
> and it is very easy to miss the crucial difference between them.
in fact, some recent posts show that things can go the other way round:
people try to use <- for function arguments. i think the following is
the most secure way if one really really has to do assignment in a
function call:
f({a=3})
and if one keeps this convention, <- can be dropped altogether.
vQ
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