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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by bachmeier on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:55PM (#25318256)
Borrowed from Haskell. (Which of course does not make it unfunky.)

https://wiki.haskell.org/Anonymous_function

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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by lottin on Sunday December 06, 2020 @04:30AM (#25322297)
In R all functions are anonymous functions. Functions are created anonymously and then (usually, but not always) assigned to a variable using the assignment operator.
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