Re: set macro inconsistency

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Hi,

On 22.02.2012 08:17, pl...@pi... wrote:
>
> I just defined a few macros to shorten some lengthy plot commands, eg.
>
> in_lt_blue=' linecol rgb "light-blue" '
>
> It worked fine when I loaded the complete file using load command. No
> errors and I got the right results.
>
> Then I tested something else directly at the command prompt:
>
> gnuplot>  in_red=' linecol rgb "red" '
> gnuplot>  @in_red
>                     ^
>            invalid character @
>
>
> I realised that this was in fact correct since I had not ' set macros'
>
> But in that case why did it work when I loaded this and similar lines
> with load ?

could you try to construct a small example which shows this behavior? I 
tried the following to reproduce the error, but it does not show what 
you report:

system('echo "in_red='' linecol rgb \"red\" ''" > test.gp')
load 'test.gp'
@in_red

this gives me "invalid character @"

Christoph