Re: [Gretl-devel] nesting a function call getting a list doesn't work

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Well apart from the fact that by coincidence you could already have a > totally unrelated series named "reskwh_H" in your dataset, it's not > me who's saying it's a problem! It's Allin who's saying that it > becomes a problem when you call the function without assigning the > list return name. And I agree 100% with Allin! >> The problem that may occur of overwritting some important previous >> series should be resolved by the package programmer who should select >> the names for the generated series carefully. > > Absolutely. And how, exactly? This would require clairvoyance. How am I, the package writer, supposed to know that the package will never be used on a dataset that contains a series by the name well_this_should_be_safe?