R is GNU S, not C.... [was "how to get or store ....."]

"vincent" == vincent  <vincent at 7d4.com>
    on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:09:36 +0100 writes:

    vincent> shanmuha boopathy a Ã©crit :

    >> a<-function(a,b,c,d)
    >> {
    >> k=a+b
    >> l=c+d
    >> m=k+l
    >> }
    >> 
    >> in this example the function will return only the value of "m"
    >> ...But I like to extract the values of "l" & "k" also.........
    >> which command to use for storing or for extracting those intermediate value.......

    vincent> may I suggest, inside your function

    vincent> res = c(k, l, m);
    vincent> return(res);

please, please,  these trailing ";"  are  *so* ugly.
This is GNU S, not C (or matlab) !

{and I have another chain of argments why   "<-" is so more
expressive than "="  but I'll be happy already if you could
drop these ugly empty statements at the end of your lines...

    vincent> # also ... read some intro docs !