R annoyances
On Friday, May 20, 2005 11:29 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:
The most beautiful thing in old R (I started with 0.63) was that it was in the elegant unix tradition: all lower case and point (full stop, period, whatever) in places where you needed it. It is unfortunate that other languages are creeping in and old neat constructions are replaces with C++ style uGliNess. There was a grace period when switching from beautiful (fair) print.coefmat to ugLy printCoefmat, but some changes were more abrupt (package.description). I have a feeling that the recent trashing of names.dist (with a lot of code breakage even in base R) was caused by the same kind of political correctness. Please Mr R, keep it like it used to be...
BecauseIt'sFridayI'llJoinIntoThisTiredOldDebate.TheUseOfMixedCase
UglinessToDistinguishBetween"Words"InObjectNamesIsIndeedAn
Abomination.
It_is_much_easier,_and_demonstrably_so_I_would_say,_to_use
some_kind_of_real_separator_between_"words."
S.and.R.have.historically.encouraged.a.different.separator
than.most.other.languages,.but.the.principle.is.the.same.
And the double benefit is that it leaves case available for
other good uses, such as indicating an object's scope:
local.var
Class.Data
GLOBAL.SETTING
--Todd
Z. Todd Taylor Senior Development Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Why is it "after dark," not "after light"?