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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by Myrmornis on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:10PM (#16807732)
> Granted, there are a bunch of R haters (especially from people with formal CS educations), I think this convention makes a lot of sense.

To be clear, the assignment syntax is great, it's other things that are the target of R haters' hate! Like a high-level language without hash tables.

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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by lionel- on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:42AM (#16809464)
You can use environments for hash tables.
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