Hi John. In working on the MATCH FILES command I incidentally ran into the new code for handling long variable names. It seems needlessly complex to me to maintain both a long name and a short name for each variable. Is there a good reason to do so? I don't see any evidence in the Syntax Reference Guide for SPSS 12.0 that SPSS keeps anything similar around.
I would prefer to keep a single `name' member, which would be of flexible length and retain the original capitalization, and then where necessary (e.g. for SAVE and EXPORT) devise an equivalent 8-character name. (The immediate problem that I'm encountering is that dict_rename_var() doesn't update both short and long names, but that is in my opinion only a symptom of the increased complexity.) I am willing to write and test this change. I think it should go into 0.4.0, unless you have some serious objections. Ben -- "Welcome to the Slippery Slope. Here is your handbasket. Say, can you work 70 hours this week?" --Ron Mansolino _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
