On 14-May-09 11:28:17, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Barry Rowlingson wrote: >>> As a beginner, I agree .... the for loop is much clearer to me. >> >> [Warning: Contains mostly philosophy] >> > maybe quasi ;) > >> To me, the world and how I interact with it is procedural. When I want >> to break six eggs I do 'get six eggs, repeat "break egg" until all >> eggs broken'. > > yeah, that's the implementation level. a typical recipe would not say > 'for n from 1 to 6, break the nth egg'. it'd rather say 'break the > eggs', which is closer to 'apply break to the eggs'. you do of course > break the eggs sequentially (or?), but that's below the abstraction > useful for the recipe purpose.
But it does influence how you organise the subsequent garbage collection. :) Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 14-May-09 Time: 12:40:16 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.
