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?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
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http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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