[Gretl-devel] Re: [Gretl-users] accessing $vcv etc.

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Fri, October 13, 2006 15:57, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I agree on that.  But I think Sven was talking about something a
> bit different from executing a script, namely interactive work at
> the console. I believe the question is: should interactive work in
> the gui program (by point and click or via console commands) be
> treated as a single "thread", or should there be a distinct
> "console thread", with its own notion of "last model"?
>
> Personally, I'm not sure about this, but I have tripped over the
> issue myself once or twice.  E.g. estimate a model in the gui,
> open the console, type "genr uh = $uhat", and get an error message
> because there's no $uhat available...

As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather have the present behaviour than

? ols y x
# do some random stuff in the gui
? genr u = $uhat
# get the wrong thing

My 2 € cents go to the "2 threads" options.

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona