Ang. Re: [Gretl-devel] Bug in help file

[andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se]

Why not just change the name of the gamma function from "gamma" to
"gammafunction" or "gammaf" or something like that?

Andreas



svetosch at gmx.net @ INTERNET skrev 2007-09-13 11:14:33 :

> 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