Re: [Gretl-devel] syntax suggestion for append to string
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> in hansl we concatenate strings with "~" and not "+" (which
is an offset
>> specification). But then why do we have to use "+=" to append to a
>> string and not "~="? I find this confusing and always get this wrong.
Is
>> it just me or could we introduce the syntax "~=" for strings?
>
> I agree it's the logical choice. It's already available. I've now
amended
> the doc to recommend it.
It was already documented in the Hansl primer.
Yep, but the User's Guide only mentioned "+=". As per Sven's point,
the latter really ought to do something else entirely, namely
"advance" the start of a string by an integer number of characters.
However, I won't change that yet!
Allin