Re: [Gretl-devel] nesting a function call getting a list doesn't work
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> 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?
Well Jack, please change "resolved" by "minimized" and better use
wEll_THiSs_shoulD_be_sAFe ;-))
Ok. How do we establish what is "sAFe"? Would "Safe" be safe? How
about
"SAFe"?
And second: how do we check that a contributed package doesn't contain a
public function returning a list that by construction the series "depvar"
(decidedly _not safe_), or worse, "y"?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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