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That's an interesting point and likely correct. The story I gave here was told to me way back in the day by RG himself, although the real reason R uses `<-` is
by jghn 10y ago
That's an interesting point and likely correct.
The story I gave here was told to me way back in the day by RG himself, although the real reason R uses `<-` is "because that's what S does" and it's possible that the reason he was given wasn't 100% correct itself.
- riffraff 10y agoFWIW, the left arrow is also what smalltalk used for assignment, from wikipedia[0] In the original Parc Place image, the glyph of the underscore character (_) appeared as a left-facing arrow (like in the 1963 version of the ASCII code). Smalltalk originally accepted this left-arrow as the only assignment operator. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Assignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Assignment