Re: [Gretl-devel] saving graphs to icons within functions

> I'll have a think about it. But to push the question back: Do we > want functions to be able to do this sort of thing? (That is, > create named objects in the user's personal namespace without > getting the user's explicit consent in the form of assigning a > return value.) The question is not mean to be rhetorical; I'm not > sure what's right here. > I agree, it's not clear at all. In a normal function context I'd say it's not necessary, because you can run a script and in the top-level scope of your script do these "<-" assignments easily (gnuplot or model table). The problem arises within the package context, where everything is hidden from the user and should happen automatically... * The main reason I think the functionality is useful is because just having the .plt file is not nearly as good as having the icon. If I (or a package user) could somehow import the .plt file easily into gretl to get an icon with the associated possibility of GUI tweaking the graph, then I would probably rest the case.