On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Lee Adkins wrote: > What is the preferred use of these in hansl? I've started using scalar for > all scalar computations (but in any old code I used genr); sometimes I use > series instead of genr to generate new variables. I do realize that series > will generate a series from a scalar.
These days, the recommendation is to use the type-name ("scalar", "series" or whatever) when creating a new variable. There has been some talk of getting rid of "genr" as a command word, and while that's not slated just yet it's probably a good idea to avoid it. Allin Cottrell