Date:         Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:37:00 +0200
Reply-To:     ROPPELT GERD <gerd.w.roppelt@saarbruecken.de>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         ROPPELT GERD <gerd.w.roppelt@saarbruecken.de>
Subject:      Re: Catastrophic elementary computations
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

 > From: Josep M. Domenech [mailto:josepmaria.domenech@uab.es]


 > COMPUTE L1= (X1-X0)>= 0.1 .
 >
 > COMPUTE L2= (X1 >= X0+0.1).

This ist not SPSS-Syntax (or at least a catastrophic one, indeed).


 > Is a SPSS 12 bug?

No.

 > Is there a patch?

No.

 > Does this bug persist in SPSS 13?

It depends.
Please read the SPSS Syntax Reference Guide.
The COMPUTE command has the following syntax:

COMPUTE target_variable = expression.

Example: COMPUTE L1= X1 - X0.

In  this example we have a numeric expression, which does not
include any other equations or inequations.


 > Thanks,

HTH,
Gerd