Re: [Gretl-devel] Bug in help file
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
"Gamma" is a rather special case. Of all Greek letters,
it's the
only one that's more likely to be used to indicate a function
than a parameter (or at least 50/50). The solution I have used
for years is to use "gama" with 1 "m" for parameters --- which
does look ugly, but saves you incidents like this. Or, we could
possibly take advantage of gretl being case sensitive and use
"Gamma" (capital g) in the example.
Actually, I just took a look and I think that genr is smart
enough not to confuse variables with functions, without the
prohibition on using function names for variables. So in CVS I've
removed the prohibition. Some testing is wanted, but if nothing
explodes this may be the way to go.
Allin.