Message-ID: <CANVKczO+J5OR3vGCRE0cuT7KfA9y7zQdq_iRjJYkqs=1+3hp4g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2013-07-05T16:29:29Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()?
In-Reply-To: <252887c8b1864e97a749507eec483c7b@EX-1-HT0.lancs.local>
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> R itself doesn't make use of the text column, it's for display of code
> by highlighters etc. So if anyone does assume text is a function name,
> it's their bug, not ours. In fact, the bug is already there, because
> there is actually one other example which was being parsed properly,
> "**" is translated to "^". There's no `**` function, but 2**3 works.
Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much
code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised? Can we
also have 'up assign' and "down assign" so I can do:
> 3
> x -^
> x -v
> 4
- they make just as much sense.
Okay, lets see all the edge cases.....
Barry