Re: differences between the gnuplot binary and its help

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 02:45:54 Shigeharu TAKENO wrote:

>> However, we can not use the character "$" as the part of the
>> variable name.
> 
> You are right.   I will make this correction in the documentation.
> 
> I wonder why or when this changed?

I don't recall when, but the "why" is pretty obvious: we use $ as an 
operator for 'call' arguments and as an abbreviation of column().