Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP 1.2.0 - Easy documentation clarification for COUNT

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 04:36:38AM +0000, Nolan Void wrote:
> In PSP 1.2.0. Confirmed on Gentoo 4.14.83.
> 
> Description:
> 
> Manual entry 12.4 COUNT indicates syntax as
> 
>   COUNT var_name = var… (value…).
> 
> This is correct, but incomplete. This might be better:
> 
>   COUNT var_name = var… (value…) [/var_name=...]
> 
> That's not perfectly accurate, either. But it's close to the SPSS
> manual, and probably gets the idea across better than
> 
>   COUNT var_name = var… (value…) [/var_name = var… (value…)] ...
> 
> which kinda makes yer eyes cross. Anyway, the change is so folks
> know that they can do things like
> 
> count q1 = x1 to x5 ( 0 thru 24)
>      /q2 = x1 to x5 (25 thru 49)
>      /q3 = x1 to x5 (50 thru 74)
>      /q4 = x1 to x5 (75 thru 99).
> 
> I'm just working my way through the manual, as I teach myself PSPP
> and SPSS. So, I'm in a good position to catch this sort of stuff. As
> always, thank you for your work.

Thanks for the correction.  I changed it to read:

     COUNT VAR_NAME = VAR... (VALUE...)
         [/VAR_NAME = VAR... (VALUE...)]...

which seems to me to be pretty readable and accurate.

Please keep sending improvements, I appreciate it.