Arne Kovac
1997-Jul-27 03:15 UTC
Lost comments (was Re: R-alpha: New version of R for testing)
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Ross Ihaka wrote:> o Comments are handled better in functions. The rule is that they > are shifted to just before their statements. Comments after the > last statement of a function are lost.More generally each comment between the last statement of a block and its closing bracket is lost!! I wonder if this is really an advantage: I just "uncommented" a line for test purposes to see some minutes later that I had to retype it again. :-(> dummy<-+ function () + { + for (i in 1:3) { + print(1) + #print(2) + } + More() + Commands() + }> dummyfunction () { for (i in 1:3) { print(1) } More() Commands() } Arne Kovac -- Arne Kovac School of Mathematics Phone: +44 (0117) 942 7551 University of Bristol A.Kovac@bristol.ac.uk University Walk http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/~maak Bristol, BS8 1TW, U.K. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-