Re: [Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-02 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stavros Macrakis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk < > waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: > > >> Stavros Macrakis wrote: >> ... >> i think this concords with the documentation in the sense that in an >> assignment a string can work as a name. note that >> >>

Re: [Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-01 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk < waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: > Stavros Macrakis wrote: > ... > i think this concords with the documentation in the sense that in an > assignment a string can work as a name. note that > >`foo bar` = 1 >is.name(`foo`) >

Re: [Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-01 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stavros Macrakis wrote: > The documentation for assignment says: > > In all the assignment operator expressions, 'x' can be a name or > an expression defining a part of an object to be replaced (e.g., > 'z[[1]]'). A syntactic name does not need to be quoted, though it > can be

Re: [Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-01 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 15:49 , Stavros Macrakis wrote: > > The documentation for assignment says: >> >>In all the assignment operator expressions, 'x' can be a name or >>an expression defining a part of an object to be replaced (e.g., >

Re: [Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 1, 2009, at 15:49 , Stavros Macrakis wrote: The documentation for assignment says: In all the assignment operator expressions, 'x' can be a name or an expression defining a part of an object to be replaced (e.g., 'z[[1]]'). A syntactic name does not need to be quoted, thoug

[Rd] Assignment to string

2009-04-01 Thread Stavros Macrakis
The documentation for assignment says: In all the assignment operator expressions, 'x' can be a name or an expression defining a part of an object to be replaced (e.g., 'z[[1]]'). A syntactic name does not need to be quoted, though it can be (preferably by backticks). But the