On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, I wrote: > As for the crash Thorsten got, that's now fixed in CVS and > snapshots: attempting to use "append" within a function will > provoke an error (as does "open", which has always generated an > error -- but when we banned "open" originally we overlooked the > need to ban "append").
Nostra culpa -- or "our bad", if you prefer. I had a feeling there might be an example in the Gretl User's Guide where "append" is used inside a function and now I've found it, in the "Gretl and R" section under "Technical details". In that case we just got lucky and there was no crash. I need to think a bit more about whether there's a way to support "append" in functions without breaking the "encapsulation" we require of functions (basically meaning, no unintended side-effects). Allin
