[Gretl-devel] 'include' w/o 'open' -- new behavior

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> with 1.7.0 (and before that, too, I think) having an 'include' command in a 
> script without an open datafile caused an error message along the lines "you 
> have to open a datafile first".

Are you sure? The list of commands that is available before a dataset is 
open resides in the function ready_for_command(), which is near the end of 
the file lib/src/interact.c; thanks to the marvelous piece of software 
that cvs is, I was able to establish that the include command has been 
legal in that context since May 2005.

By the way, the above list contained a spurious space for the "man" 
command. Just fixed in CVS.

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti