[Gretl-users] Re: db.nomics and OECD data
On 04/11/2024 23:26, Cottrell, Allin wrote:
Thanks for the report, Klaus. My reactions:
* '@' is treated specially on the gretl command-line: it calls for
string substitution. So I'm not surprised that OECD's revising their
identifiers to include '@' in some cases (which seems to me a bit
goofy) has caused trouble. But in gretl git there's now a workaround
for that: we recognize '@' as simply a literal character in the
context of the "data" command when the command "open dbnomics" has
been issued. This change will be in gretl snapshots tomorrow.
Uhm, are we sure we want this?
I mean, in theory one could use string substitution in a gretl script to
obtain the desired results.
Maybe we could introduce some sort of "escaping" rule, or a "set"
variable with the same effect of \makeatletter and \makeatother in LaTeX.
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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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