Hello Everyone,
I'd like to thank Anne York, Henrik Aalborg Nielsen, Charles C. Berry,
and Purvis Bedenbaugh for their advice.
I agree with Anne York that it would be bad if I changed the '='
character; there are too many other situations that require its use.
I also agree with Henrik Aalborg Nielsen in that it would be nice if
MathSoft would, in future versions, implement an option that would drop
the equal character as an assignment operator, such as:
option(equal.assign=FALSE).
I'll cross my fingers that they will.
Two grammatical alternatives that are safer than 'ImportantData == Fu'
are:
"=="(ImportantData,Fu) [recommended by Charles C. Berry]
Fu == ImportantData [recommended by Purvis Bedenbaugh]
The prior will not allow me to use '=' at all, while the latter will
replace 'Fu' should I use '=' by accident rather than making me suffer.
Thank you,
Eugene M. Martin
emmartin@ufl.edu
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