[Gretl-devel] Re: saving gdtb: gretl retains old extension

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> > OK, thanks. Of course for my concrete example it's all not very > important, it's just about checking whether the user choices are > correctly given and honored. > > But I couldn't find any explanation about "old" vs. "new" missings in > the gdtb format, was it about using gretl's own encoding vs. the IEEE > missing standard? Yes, the "old" treatment of missing values in a gdtb save means it uses the definition of NA in gretl < 2018c, while the "new" (now more than 2 years old) version uses NaN. The only reason to use the old version is if you want the file to be readable by gretl 2018b or earlier. It may be about time to retire that option?