RE: st: RE: scalar troubles?

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 02:45 PM 11/5/2003 +0000, Nick Cox wrote:

> [...]
>
> 2. An early (I guess) decision with -display-
> was that -display- doesn't choke on a bare variable
> name, but looks inside the first observation.
> Odd, often surprising, occasionally useful?
>
> [...]
(This applies not just to -display-, but to any context that refers to a 
single value, rather than the whole dataset's set of values.)

I also find it odd, and have never found it useful.  Does anyone find it 
useful? I would not have designed it that way, and have always found it to 
be a potential source of error rather than a convenience.

Any other opinions?

-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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