> In ancient versions of R from the early 2000s, the underscore operator was...

		rabz on March 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012... > In ancient versions of R from the early 2000s, the underscore operator was synonymous for '<-', aka assignment. Huh, early Smalltalk mapped the left arrow to the underscore key; I'm not sure if Squeak and Pharo still do it, though.