R annoyances

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From: Jan T. Kim [mailto:jtk at cmp.uea.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:22 PM
To: John Fox
Subject: Re: [R] R annoyances

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:55:22AM -0400, John Fox wrote:

Dear Uwe,

I've often wondered why T and F aren't reserved words in R 

as TRUE and 

FALSE are. Perhaps there's some use of T and F as 

variables, but that 

seems ill-advised.

Personally, I'd rather argue the other way around: Reserved 
words should be words that should be more unique and 
expressive than just a single letter.

In fact, I've found it slightly irritating at times that c, q 
and t are functions in the base package, as I'm somewhat 
prone to use all of these as local variable names...

Best regards, Jan
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