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Yes, this is really a problem with the checks, not with the language. A simpler approach than your alternativeAssignment function would be simply to allow globalVariables() to be limited to a single function as the note in its help page says. This might be tedious to write by hand, but could be automated using methods like "dotify" in dotty. Duncan Murdoch On 12/03/2023 10:36

FWIW, it's possible to get fairly close to your proposed semantics using the existing metaprogramming facilities in R. I put together a prototype package here to demonstrate: https://github.com/kevinushey/dotty The package exports an object called `.`, with a special `[<-.dot` S3 method which enables destructuring assignments. This means you can write code like: .[nr, nc] <-

Thanks Gabriel and Kevin for your inputs, regarding your points Gabriel, I think Python and Julia do allow multiple sub-assignment, but in-line with my earlier suggestion in response to Duncan to make multiple assignment an environment-level operation (like collapse::%=% currently works), this would not be possible in R. Regarding the [a] <- coolest_function() syntax, yeah it would mean do

Dear All, As a maintainer of large, complex packages, I can think of many places in which deconstructing assignment would simplify the code, as well as facilitate readability by breaking up larger functions into helpers, so I would be very glad to see this incorporated somehow. I think the crux of the matter is that while there is a number of ways to implement deconstructing assignment within R,

On 12/03/2023 6:07 a.m., Sebastian Martin Krantz wrote: > Thinking more about this, and seeing Kevins examples at > https://github.com/kevinushey/dotty > <https://github.com/kevinushey/dotty>, I think this is the most R-like > way of doing it, > with an additional benefit as it would allow to introduce the useful > data.table semantics DT[, .(a = b, c, d)] to more

Kevins package is very nice as a proof of concept, no doubt about that, but it is not at the level of performance or convenience that a native R implementation would offer. I would probably not use it to translate matlab routines into R packages placed on CRAN, because it?s an additional dependency, I have a performance burden in every iteration, and utils::globalVariables() is everything but

On 11/03/2023 4:42 p.m., Sebastian Martin Krantz wrote: > Thanks Duncan and Ivan for the careful thoughts. I'm not sure I can > follow all aspects you raised, but to give my limited take on a few: > >> your proposal violates a very basic property of the language, i.e. that all statements are expressions and have a value. > What's the value of 1 + (A, C =