R-beta: 0.61.1 "if else" parse bug?

[Fredrik Glockner]

* Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
|
| Osman Buyukisik writes:
|  > I was playing with porting "Hmisc" S-Lib. I am getting parse errors for:
|  > if (xxx)  yyyy;else zzzz
|  > 
|  > I have to break this into:
|  > if(xxx) yyyy
|  > else    zzzz
|  > 
|  > Is this a known feature?
| 
| Hmmm.  Bug or feature?

Actually, R is consistent with version 3.3 of S-Plus, if I'm not
mistaken.  The above construct with ";" before the "else" would give
parse error in S-Plus 3.3, but _not_ in S-Plus 3.1.  So I really feel
that R is doing the right thing here.

Fredrik
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