Re: [Gretl-devel] some feedback on system estimation

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Hélio Guilherme wrote: > Well I think that for the length of var names, you could allow 31 > characters, but when displaying them in reports > or printouts requiring column formatting, you would truncate them > adding ... to the fixed length. > So we would have: > IntLoopCountIndexWithAVeryLongName > > printed > > IntLoopCountIn... > > It's the user choice to make variables names distinct at the beginning. This was discussed at Toruń, and the general consensus seems to be that we _may_ adopt some Stata-like policy for truncating overly long variable names at output time. I'm not against this, but I'd rather put it off after release.