On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> just a small clarifying question:
>
> smpl some_zero_one_series --dummy
>
> and
>
> smpl some_zero_one_series --restrict
>
> are equivalent, right? For me they seem to give the same result, and
> then I asked myself why the '--dummy' option exists at all. Am I missing
> something?

It's true, the --dummy flag is technically redundant given the --restrict 
flag. However, if I'm remembering right the --dummy option came first, so 
removing it would have been backward incompatible.

Also, it might be considered user-friendly to retain the --dummy option 
(pun somewhat intended), in that people who are unfamiliar with 
programming concepts may not immediately see that if "foo" is an indicator 
variable the conditions "foo" and "foo != 0" are functionally identical. 
(Or in other words, plain "foo" may not look like a "restriction" as 
such.)

Allin

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