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2023 Jan 13
1
return value of {....}
> 09.01.2023 18:05:58 akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>:
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> We are living in the 21st century world, and the R-core team might,I suppose, have a definite reason ...
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Maybe compatibility reasons with S and R-versions from the 20st century?
But maybe, you would have expected some reason even then.
best regards,
Heinz
2023 Jan 12
4
return value of {....}
Hello Akshay,
R is quite inspired by LISP, where this is a common thing. It is not in fact that {...} returned something, rather any expression evalulates to some value, and for a compound statement that is the last evaluated expression.
{...} might be seen as similar to LISPs (begin ...).
Now this is a very different thing compared to {...} in something like C, even if it looks or behaves