Gábor Csárdi

@klmr it is just better to have some mechanism to provide these hooks, otherwise there will be three operators, and none of them will work for all three types of...

@rsettlage Is this not good? ```r > osVersion [1] "Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS" ```

@NelleV Even worse: dots actually mean something (else) in R as well!

`base::addTaskCallback()` (together with `globalCallingHandlers()` for the top level calls that error) is good for catching the end of a top level call, but there is currently no way (I know)...

Many people think that multi-line comments are not a great idea because it is easy to make mistakes with them. Every modern editor supports commenting and uncommenting a block of...

> their utility outweighs the risk So if you can easily add multi-line comments in any editor (correctly, unlike adding a `*/`, which might be incorrect!), then what is their...

"Incorrect" means that if comment out (say) three lines of code in the middle of a file, you need to check if those three lines are already included in a...

> left a comment the Wrong Way instead of not writing it all just because they didn't know / couldn't remember a emacs shortcut. Well, when you _write_ comments, you...

> A lot of comments I've seen aren't original, they're copy pasted into the file from other sources. Email, stackoverflow, github, jira being the most common, but also articles, software...

FWIW, the startup time and the pid pretty well identify a process. The ps package has code to get the startup time. If you want to use this across machines,...