R-beta: 0.61.1 "if else" parse bug?

[Ross Ihaka]

Osman Buyukisik writes:
 > I was playing with porting "Hmisc" S-Lib. I am getting parse errors for:
 > if (xxx)  yyyy;else zzzz
 > 
 > I have to break this into:
 > if(xxx) yyyy
 > else    zzzz
 > 
 > Is this a known feature?

Hmmm.  Bug or feature?

Note that as you've written it, this does not parse in S either.
However,
	{ if (xxx)  yyyy;else zzzz }
does.

It works in S because the parser converts ";" immediately into "\n"
and within "{ ... }" a newline preceding preceding an "else" is not
significant.

There is a side-effect problem in S which comes out of this quick-fix.
E.g (in S)
	> 1;2
	[1] 1
	> [1] 2
	> 
Note the extra prompt printed before the second value.

It might be possible to "unfix" this in R, but it's not trivial.

I'd suggest that you make a quick pass through the code removing any
";"s which occur at the end of lines and converting any ";"
immediately before an "else" into a space (or newline).

	Ross
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