Message-ID: <loom.20090206T072646-708@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2009-02-06T07:27:49Z
From: Dieter Menne
Subject: eval and as.name
Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk <at> idi.ntnu.no> writes:
> equal? you mean equivalent? mostly, yes. briefly, this is why:
>
> 1. a copy-over from other programming languages;
> 2. to avoid learning yet another operator;
> 3. after having learned the other operator, to avoid that ugly operator;
> 4. after an r guru complained here about people using this instead of
> that, to annoy him.
:-) It's always fun to read....
Dieter