Re: Intended scope of "set locale" and "set decimalsign"?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> - What do we really want the "set locale" command to do?

Sorry, this is probably not very helpful, but from experience with 
gretl I'd say: use of anything other than '.' as decimal separator 
is evil, and given that it's an option at all, the more tightly 
it can be corralled, the better.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC