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Subject: Summary on "Stupid question on if ... else ..."
From: "Jeffrey Wang" <jwang@xcaliber.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:54:27 -0500
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Thread-topic: [S] Stirling Numbers
        Thanks to everyone who quickly replied my message. So the issue has 
been there a long time, and I just discovered it (shame on me, I suppose). The 
short answer is: grow used to the second version, unless Insightful decides 
this is a bug instead of a feature. 

----
Jeffrey Wang 
Ronin Capital LLC
Chicago, IL 60604
Tel: (312) 244-5768
Fax: (312) 244-5836

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Wang 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:07 AM
To: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
Subject: [S] Stupid question on if ... else ...


        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.

----
Jeffrey Wang 
Ronin Capital LLC
Chicago, IL 60604
Tel: (312) 244-5768
Fax: (312) 244-5836
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