On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 05.02.2008 20:59, Allin Cottrell schrieb: > > > > > But this has a "preserve" option: > > > > dataset clear --preserve > > > > which has the effect that existing named matrices are not destroyed. > > > > Similarly, the commands "open" and "nulldata" have a --preserve option: > > clear most stuff out, but keep matrices. > > I guess this does not cover scalar variables, what about the new string > variables?
Nothing but matrices, so far. But scalars and strings are worth thinking about. > Or to put it differently: What's the rationale behind displaying > scalars in the list of variables, but matrices as items in the > session view? And where (if anywhere) are the strings and lists? > With respect to scalars I guess the reason is historical, but > then I would suggest a reform according to some (intuitive?) > guideline. Yes, this should be sorted out at some point. However, there's _some_ sense in the current ad hoc setup, in that it would be silly to give scalars icons in the session view, not so silly to do that with matrices, IMO. There's no GUI representation of saved lists or strings. I can't see any use for giving the latter such a representation, but one could probably think of a use for the former. Allin.
