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I appreciate the well-thought-out comments. To your first point, I am not sure what "glattering" means precisely (a Google search revealed nothing useful), but I assume it means something to the effect of overfilling the main namespace with too many names. Per Norm Matloff's counterpoint in The Art of R Programming regarding this issue, this is mostly avoided by well-defined, (suffic...

>?That beeing said I think the main task of scripts is to get things done via running them end to end in a fresh session. Now, it very well may happen that a lot of stuff has to be done. Than splitting up scripts into subscripts and sourcing them from a meta script is a straightforward solution. It might also be that some functionality is put into functions to be reused in other places. This

...unction execution code in the same script - which we agreed upon is bad practice. Best, Peter Am Mi., 28. Aug. 2019 um 17:58 Uhr schrieb Cyclic Group Z_1 < cyclicgroup-z1 at yahoo.com>: > I appreciate the well-thought-out comments. > > To your first point, I am not sure what "glattering" means precisely (a > Google search revealed nothing useful), but I assume it means something to > the effect of overfilling the main namespace with too many names. Per Norm > Matloff's counterpoint in The Art of R Programming regarding this issue, > this is mostly avoided by w...

Firtst, I think that thinking about best practice advise and beeing able to accomandate different usage scenarios is a good thing despite me arguing against introducing the main()-idiom. Let's have another turn on the global-environment is bad argument. It has two parts: (1) Glattering namespace. Glattering name space might become a problem because you might end up having used all reasonable words already so one has to extend the space for names with new namespaces. For scripting, this usually should be no problem since one can always create more space through the usage of enviro...