[Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

G. Jay Kerns wrote:
> Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>
>
>   
> I am prompted to imagine someone pointing out to the volunteers of the
> International Red Cross - on the field of a natural disaster, no less
> - that their uniforms are not an acceptably consistent shade of
> pink... or that the screws on their tourniquets do not have the
> appropriate pitch as to minimize the friction for the turner...
>
>   

not that it is very accurate, because unintuitive and confusing
semantics may lead to hidden and dangerous errors in users' code.  wrong
shade of a uniform might lead to the person being shot, for example, but
then your point vanishes.


> As a practicing statistician I am simply thankful that the bleeding is
> stopped.   :-)
>   

when it is stopped, not turned to an internal bleeding, which you simply
don't see.

> Cheers to R-Core (and the hundreds of other volunteers).
>
>   

absolutely.

vQ