Message-ID: <x2y857f6nc.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2005-10-06T07:26:15Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Changing the value of variables passed to functions as arguments
In-Reply-To: <p0623091cbf6a3eb01a36@[192.168.1.102]>
Paul Baer <baer at stanford.edu> writes:
> Is it possible to write functions in such a way that, rather than
> having to write "a=function(a)", one can just write "function(a)" and
> have the variable passed as the argument be modified?
>
> My real interest here is being able to invoke the editor by writing
> "ed(filename)" rather than filename=edit(filename).
You might want to check out fix()...
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