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Re: st: What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?
Date
Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:33:01 +0100
These are names of globals defined in -egen- to communicate between
programs, which manifestly can't be done through locals, apart from
using non-documented features. If you're following my earlier advice
you will leave them in peace.
Nick
On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:03, Pradipto Banerjee <[email protected]
> wrote:
I noticed some of the codes, e.g. _ggroup2 use EGEN_Varname and
EGEN_SVarname and recently one of the codes shared by Nick (called
ereplace) use these. What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?
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