R is GNU S, not C.... [was "how to get or store ....."]

Patrick Burns a ??crit :

We get questions on R-help often enough about why
code like:

if(x > 0) y <- 4
else y <- 4.5e23

doesn't work.

If people habitually used semi-colons, those sorts of
questions would probably multiply.

I wrote "end of line" in my first message,
but in fact I did mean "end of statement".

By the way, there will always be more ways to make mistakes
than to make rigth ... with or without semi-colons ;-)