The `examples' section says
plot.mlm # to see how the "NotYetImplemented"
# reference is made automagically
^
Best,
Torsten
>>>>> Torsten Hothorn writes:> The `examples' section says> plot.mlm # to see how the "NotYetImplemented" > # reference is made automagically > ^Well, if I had written that, it would have been on purpose ... -k
I believe the author (not me) meant that: it seems a word in CS use. See e.g. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=automagically On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Torsten Hothorn wrote:> > The `examples' section says > > plot.mlm # to see how the "NotYetImplemented" > # reference is made automagically > ^-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de> writes:> The `examples' section says > > plot.mlm # to see how the "NotYetImplemented" > # reference is made automagically > ^I think that's a joke, not a typo... http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/automagically.html -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Torsten Hothorn wrote:> # reference is made automagicallyWhile not found in ordinary dictionaries, there is a reference in the Jargon File and the Free Online Dictionary of Computing: """ automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv. Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes `cc(1)' to produce an executable." This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s. """ although I've found nowadays people just using it automatically for 'automatically', probably because it sounds cooler. At least R source code doesn't look like this: /* * ht3 ph0ll0w1ng c0d3 pr1ntz v3ct0rz wh1ch hav3 3v3ry 3l3m3nt nam3d. * Pr1m1t1v3z ph0r 3ach typ3 uv v3ct0r R pr353nt3d ph1r5t, ph0ll0w3d by * ht3 ma1n (d15patch1ng) phunct10n. 1) Th353 pr1m1t1v3z R alm05t * 1d3nt1cal... == u53 PR1NT_N_V3CT0R macr0 2) z pr1ntz a _5pac3_ 1n ht3 * ph1r5t c0lumn ph0r nam3d v3ct0r5; w3 d0nt. * R rox0rs! */ [with apologies to the authors of printvector.c] Baz