Re: [Gretl-devel] syntax suggestion for append to string
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> in hansl we concatenate strings with "~" and not "+" (which is an
offset
> specification). But then why do we have to use "+=" to append to a
> string and not "~="? I find this confusing and always get this wrong. Is
> it just me or could we introduce the syntax "~=" for strings?
I agree it's the logical choice. It's already available. I've now amended
the doc to recommend it.
It was already documented in the Hansl primer.
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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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