Re: [Gretl-users] Renaming variables not allowed within a loop
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 19.03.2016 um 18:30 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> It's deliberate, not a bug, but we may want to reconsider it before
> releasing gretl 2016b.
I'd like to take the conservative side here and suggest to release 2016b
without such a change. As you say, it has the potential to mess things up,
and I have repeatedly voiced my concern that gretl sometimes has more bugs
than necessary.
This is not meant to ban this change completely, but allow more time for a
thorough testing phase.
OK, I take Sven to be saying (and also Artur) that if there's any
chance that renaming a series within a loop could lead to mischief,
the general ban on using the "rename" command within loops should be
maintained until further notice.
I'm OK with that. It seems to me that renaming a series is an
operation that should rarely be required, so this shouldn't be too
restrictive. We can relax this restriction at a later date if we're
quite confident that we've come up with an effective alternative.
Allin