Fun with [ as a Function in R

John Mount definitely quotes Dr. Ian Malcolm correctly in this one:

How about defining a new [-based function call notation? The ideas is: we could write sin[5] in place of sin(5), thus unifying the notations for function call and array access. Some languages do in fact have unified function call and array access (though often using “(” for both). Examples languages include Fortran and Matlab.

Let’s add R to the list of such languages.

I love the flexibility in the language, almost as much as I would enjoy taking away production rights from the person who ships this in my code base…