Re: Recent bug report on pspp-users

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:20:51AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> * When entering k columns of data one column at a time, an error message 
> occurs when entering a value in the second row of column 2, 3, ..., k.
> 
> Confirmed.  Any ideas anyone?

I see what's happening: entering a value in the first row causes the
variable to be created, and then selects the next row and gives it
keyboard focus but does not select the existing text (which contains a
period and some white space).  If you then type a number and Enter, the
result is a field filled with a period, some white space, and a number,
which isn't valid.

I'll see what I can do to fix that.

> * Certain selected measures of association are ignored in Crosstabs. 
> 
> I find the code in crosstabs.q hard to follow.  Is the time right to replace 
> crosstabs.q with crosstabs.c like (most of) the other commands?

Is the problem really that the parsing code is hard to follow?  I
somehow doubt that that is the real problem.

However: I don't object to the conversion.  I think that q2c is a failed
experiment.