R help - Aug 2003 - Replacing underscore character in Windows GUI

Hello, all,

I'd like to propose that now that the underscore-as-assignment-operator
is to be removed from R (good thing, too), that the Windows GUI should
replace the underscore ``_''  with the proper assignment operator
``<-''
when you type in the underscore character.

This is the current default behaviour in the ESS mode in emacs, and seems
to me to be a generally good idea.  If no one can come up with a good
reason not to do this, I hope that the maintainers of the GUI will put it
on their to-do list.

Thanks,
Nels

"nels.tomlinson.1" <tomlinso at purdue.edu> writes:
> I'd like to propose that now that the underscore-as-assignment-operator
> is to be removed from R (good thing, too), that the Windows GUI should
> replace the underscore ``_''  with the proper assignment operator
``<-''
> when you type in the underscore character.
> 
> This is the current default behaviour in the ESS mode in emacs, and seems
> to me to be a generally good idea.  If no one can come up with a good
> reason not to do this, I hope that the maintainers of the GUI will put it
> on their to-do list.
One of the purposes of deprecating then disallowing the underscore as an
assignment character is to allow its use in names.

On 12 Aug 2003 at 17:38, nels.tomlinson.1 wrote:

I thought one of the reasons for removing the underscore as synonym 
to <- was that at some later point it could be reintroduced in the 
grammar, for example as a valid part of variable names. 

If this is the case, this suggestion is a bad idea. Better to forget 
the habvit of using _ for assignment! Maybe this reemplacement of _ 
with <- will be removed from ess too?

Kjetil Halvorsen
> Hello, all,
> 
> I'd like to propose that now that the underscore-as-assignment-operator
> is to be removed from R (good thing, too), that the Windows GUI should
> replace the underscore ``_''  with the proper assignment operator
``<-''
> when you type in the underscore character.
> 
> This is the current default behaviour in the ESS mode in emacs, and seems
> to me to be a generally good idea.  If no one can come up with a good
> reason not to do this, I hope that the maintainers of the GUI will put it
> on their to-do list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nels
> 
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