Message-ID: <4032A431.9030203@stats.waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 2004-02-17T23:30:57Z
From: Murray Jorgensen
Subject: In praise of ->
In-Reply-To: <3A822319EB35174CA3714066D590DCD504AF77E0@usrymx25.merck.com>
Liaw, Andy wrote:
> This is also easily accomodated w/o the use of ->: Instead of
>
> MyValue -> fred
> [code that follows]
>
> use:
>
> fred <-
> MyValue
> [code that follows]
>
> Andy
The point is that
-> fred
[code that follows]
is sitting as one piece in the clipboard. So instead of
3 <paste>
8 <paste>
etc
you need to do
fred -> 3 <paste>
fred -> 8 <paste>
etc
Not a big saving, but some of us are lazy!
--
Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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