[R] Can we get rid of && and ||?

[Dan E. Kelley]

> > I have some doubts about the implementation of the operators  '&&'  and
> > '||'. I only discuss  '&&'  here. The reason: One of my students tried

One thing I like about Perl is that it defines 'and' and (rhyming
here, can't help it) 'or' as well as the operators that C programmers
expect.

I've known many folks who were confused with & and && in C, but C
needs both bitwise and logical operators, so we're stuck.

Speaking of stuck, R is stuck too, since it strives to be like S.  A
way to improve things might be to provide warnings of things that are
legal but that might indicate errors of programming.  Perl does this
quite effectively, which is worth mentioning since it too is caught in
the bind of sticking with poor choices made in the adolescent stage of
growth.

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