[Gretl-devel] how to avoid unintentional rewriting series?

Dear all, Gretl have several possibilities for creating of large numbers of new variables with autonames: square(list)/ square list list^list dummify(discreteVar) etc. Below is the script to illustrate the problem open denmark.gdt sq_LRM = IBO/IDE # Descriptive label-> IBO/IDE square LRM # Descriptive label-> = LRM squared series LRY_LRM = IBO # Descriptive label-> IBO list x = LRY LRM square(x,1) # Descriptive label of LRY_LRM -> LRY times LRM With denmark.gdt everything is obvious But what if we work with a large data set with hundreds of variables and hundreds of new dummies and interactions some replacements can be easily overlooked I think there should be some tools to prevent casual rewriting variables May be a precheck function to find possible name duplicating or rename() to rename variables having underscore in names: this will prevent duplicating, since all autonames contain '_' I'll be glad for opinions Oleh