Re: [Gretl-users] binomial pvalue-function broken?
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, jack wrote:
My humble opinion is that any decimal seprator other than
"." is
EVIL; being in a country where the traditional decimal separator
is "," and "." is reserved for thousands, I can tell you that the
potential for confusion is immense, to the point of making the CSV
format nearly useless. If we allow commas as separators in scripts
depending on the locale setting, portability becomes a nightmare.
I tend to agree with this. I think it's OK to display results using
',' as decimal separator but we should standardize on '.' for script
input.
Part of Sven's point, though, was that even when he used '.',
gretl's localization screwed him up.
Here's idea number 2. We rigorously enforce the use of '.' as
decimal separator for "genr" and friends, and I work on ensuring
that -- even if the "locale decimal separator" option is selected in
gretl -- within the genr context ',' is always treated as an
argument separator and never as decimal separator.
This would have to be made clear in the manual too.
Allin Cottrell