Re: Macro Functionality

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:06:12PM -0500, Andrew Choens wrote:
     On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:20 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     > Andrew Choens <address@hidden> writes:
     > 
     > > I looked in the PSPP manual and can see that the DEFINE syntax is not
     > > yet implemented. Is macro functionality something that is being worked
     > > on or is it an area where manpower is a problem?
     > 
     > I have thought about implementing macros, but have not got around
     > to it.  This is, I think, the first request we've had to
     > implement them.  If you want, you can file a "wishlist" bug at
     > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp as a reminder.
     
     I will file a wishlist request. I'm trying to build some stub and banner
     tables and thought it would be possible to write a macro to do this, but
     it does not sound like that will be a possibility right now.

From what I can infer from the spss community, the "macro"
functionality is considered anachronistic.  For new code, they seem to
recommend using the Python interface.  

Which do you think should have higher priority for PSPP?

J'


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