A suggestion regarding multiple replies

On 15-Nov-03 Ted Harding wrote:
And the following (in today's "?for" thread) is a perfect example of
what I mean:
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From: Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> > To: Angel
<angel_lul at hotmail.com>, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R]
?for > Date: 17 Nov 2003 11:49:37 +0100 > > Further hint: ? is an
operator, syntactically similar to + and -. > You can apply operators
to the result of a for loop. Consider for > example > > x <- 1; - for
(i in 1:10) x <- x * i > > (? has special semantics, but that is not
noticed at parse time).
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This is just the sort of thing I love to see posted to the list,
since it is an eye-opener. In fact, to really see what goes on
I had to rub my eyes as follows:

  - for (i in 1:10) print(i)

and I'm posting it hoping that it will enlighten some other people.

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

test <- function(x) invisible(x)
test(9)
- test(9)

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