[Gretl-devel] Regarding long variable names

andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se
Mon Oct 29 05:49:44 EDT 2007


Would it be terribly difficult to let gretl allow longer variable lengths?
For example, function names are allowed to have 31 characters. Couldn't
variable names also be allowed to have 31 characters?

Andreas



cottrell at wfu.edu @ INTERNET skrev 2007-10-27 21:29:41 :

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
> > the snapshot from Oct 21 crashed for me repeatedly, and it looks >
> like it has to do with long (more than 16 chars) variable names >
> that were entered via "define new variable".
>
> Thanks for the report.  The maximum length of variable names was not
> being properly enforced.  Fixed in CVS.
>
> Allin.



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