simple if...else causes syntax error

Peter Dalgaard · 2005-03-07T17:42:52Z

Gabor Grothendieck writes: > Jan T. Kim cmp.uea.ac.uk> writes: > : Out of personal interest: Does anyone here know why the R parser was > : designed this way? Personally, I have been coding in R for years in the > : belief that newline is whitespace, and never even noticed any problems > : because all my ifs with elses were within functions and thus enclosed > : in curly braces. > : > > If it did not work that way it would require console lookahead. Th

Peter Dalgaard

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 9:42 AM

Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at myway.com> writes:

Or put differently, the language designers were not quite aware of the
reason that other command-line languages tend to use explicit
construct terminators like "endif" or "fi".... (I think that is almost
a quote from one of the prominent language experts inside R core, but
I can't pinpoint the details.)

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