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

[Sven Schreiber]

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb:
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> I have the feeling that nothing is wrong with "include" per se. 

Yes, except that 'include ./thisfile.inp' doesn't work.
> If my suspicion is right, your included file starts with an "if" 
> statement, which is indeed illegal if no dataset is open (and rightly 
> so). 

But why "rightly so"? It's not at all obvious to me.


> If you use the if statement to de-activate a portion of the script 
> unconditionally (as in "if 2>3"), it seems to me that commenting out 
> the code is a much better solution.

Yeah except that AFAIK in gretl's editor it's not possible to do it with 
a large chunk in one step. Or is there a hidden (or not so hidden) way?

thanks,
sven