Stupid question on if ... else ...

["Jeffrey Wang" <jwang@xcaliber.com>]

        For all my life, I used if ... else ... in the following syntax:

if (length(2) == 1) {
        tmp = 1
} 
else {
        tmp = 2
}

        However recently, this stopped working for me if this is sourced in as 
a part of file (it still works if I run it from the script window). I had to 
change it as follows in my file:

if (length(2) == 1) {
        tmp = 1
} else {
        tmp = 2
}

        Can someone explain this to me what might be the cause? Thanks for any 
hints in advance.

P.S. I am using S+ 6.1 release 1 on Windows 2000 if it helps.

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