[Gretl-devel] Bug in help file

Sven Schreiber svetosch at gmx.net
Thu Sep 13 04:08:12 EDT 2007


Allin Cottrell schrieb:

> 
> IMO it's not very likely that we'd want to treat gretl functions 
> as variables, but any other thoughts?
> 

Without having read the thread thoroughly, I can see no real advantage
of allowing such name clashes. One can always use "gammavector" or
"mygamma" or whatever. The disadvantage I see is potentially confusing
and hard-to-debug script code, and possible new bugs at the gretl
interpreter level.

-sven


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