Re: [Gretl-users] rerunning bundle declarations

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote: > On 12/12/2012 04:07 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> I have the problem that when I declare a bundle in a script and run the >>> script a *second* time, I get the following error: >>> >>> ? bundle test >>> Invalid declaration: maybe you need the "clear" command? >>> >>> Error executing script: halting >>>> bundle test >> >> That's by design. Declaring a variable of a given name more >> than once is a scripting error (always has been). You can >> redefine a variable OK, but you cannot re-declare it; >> re-declaration probably means the writer has forgotten about a >> variable. But the "clear" command is there if you need it, to >> give yourself a tabula rasa. > > Wait a second, I have run my scripts repeatedly all the time, with all > the matrix and series declarations in them, without clearing out stuff > all the time explicitly. > > Oh, or I guess there's a difference between pure *declaration* and > *assignment*? That would make sense, because only for bundles it's > necessary to do a pure declaration, so that would be new for me. Yes, that would be the explanation. > Still, 'clear' is a bit too heavy as it also throws away the data... Hm. I guess we could add an option to "clear" so that the dataset is preserved while everything else is cleared.