Re: [Gretl-users] "outfile" makeover
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 24.07.2018 um 18:22 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> The "outfile" command has undergone a slight makeover (but with backward
> compatibility preserved). This is in git and snapshots.
>
> * Creation of a new file (or overwriting an existing one) is now the
> default action. The --write option is still accepted but it's implicit
> unless --append is given.
>
> * The recommended way of terminating redirection of output is now
> "end outfile" (but "outfile --close" is still accepted).
>
> * The script editor now treats "outfile" as a block command, and indents
> the enclosed lines appropriately.
Whoa, hold on -- this sounds great, but what happened to the earlier argument
"Allin had already explained to me that 'end outfile' would be problematic
if
you wanted to have other 'xxx ... end xxx' constructs like 'mle ... end
mle'
inside it." ??
Thanks for the reminder! But in fact it seems my earlier worry was
misplaced. I've tried putting an mle block inside an outfile block and
it works fine. The script editor also handles this as one might wish,
with two levels of indentation.
Allin