From ggrothendieck at myway.com  Wed Oct 22 17:14:04 2003
From: ggrothendieck at myway.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Wed Oct 22 17:13:30 2003
Subject: [Rd] Subsetted 1-D arrays (PR#4110)
Message-ID: <20031022151404.46585399D@xmxpita.myway.com>


Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
> David Brahm <brahm@alum.mit.edu> 
> > Also, *should* you be able to add a (4) array to a (1,4) array?
> No. You cannot in S.

You can't in APL or mathematics either.  

There is a tradeoff between expressiveness and enforcing code
quality.   The downside of giving meaning to otherwise 
non-meaningful expressions is that fewer errors can
be caught by the system -- its harder for the user to detect a 
wrong result than to simply respond to an error message.


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[Rd] Subsetted 1-D arrays (PR#4110)
Gabor Grothendieck