John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:13:00PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > Here's what I'd add to the PSPP language: > > > > * Some extra syntax on FILE HANDLE for declaring > > temporary file handles (MODE=TEMPORARY perhaps). > > I dropped this. There is no need to declare a temporary file > handle in advance. Instead, any file handle with a name that > begins with $ is a temporary file handle. > > That makes sense iff the current spss language prohibits file handles > which begin with $ --- I don't know if that is the case.
I haven't checked yet, but the manual I have here says "File handles must conform to SPSS variable naming rules." User variable names aren't allowed to start with $ so I was making the same assumption for file handles. -- "If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation." --William James _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
