right assignment ("->") and functions

Hi again list.

Thanks for these replies.  I guess the issue is one of parsing units
being different from my expectations.  I saw a related issue in a
slightly different context a couple of days ago:


R> f1 <- function(a,b)
{a
-b}
R> f2 <- function(a,b)
{a-
 b}


...which (rightly) give very different results [the original bug took
me *hours* to find].

cheers

rksh

It does work.  It just doesn't do what you expect.

Suppose you typed
 {x^2} -> f3
This would assign x^2 to f3.

So
  function(x)
    {x^2} -> f3

is an anonymous function of one argument, which assigns the square of that
argument to the local variable f3.

To get what you wanted you would need

{function(x) x^2}-> f3

	-thomas

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