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.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
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