[Gretl-devel] Regarding long variable names

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Mon Oct 29 09:42:56 EDT 2007


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:

> Would it be terribly difficult to let gretl allow longer 
> variable lengths?

Yes.  Basically, it would require that all output-formatting 
routines be re-written from scratch.  With 15-character variable 
names we're at the limit of what we can support using the current 
formats, and given a sensible maximum line length of around 80 
characters.

Allin.



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