mailing list vs. forum
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I know it's a never-ending discussion whether to have a forum or to use
mailing lists. So this is just a "ping".
First I've just noticed that you need 4 clicks to get from the gretl
homepage to the view of current threads in the list. And that assumes
that you know where to click each time. So I think one way to make the
mailing lists more "forum-like" (in a passive read-only) mode is simply
to provide a more direct access to the archives.
Secondly, Allin said that we might want to shop around for the most
suitable platform, instead of just using sourceforge. Ok, but where to
go shopping? Any concrete suggestions? I volunteer to check them out.
Finally, as the Wiki is de facto dead, I wonder if the link from the
homepage should be removed. IMHO it could be mistaken for the
(non-existent) forum and then creates a bad impression.
thanks,
sven
8 years, 6 months
Attention State Space Modellers!
by Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Sorry for cross-posting, but this is very very important.
In the past few weeks, we have been working on a substantial rewrite of
the hansl interface to state space models.
The underlying computational engine is pretty much the same as before, but
the way a user can access it via hansl scripting has been completely
redesigned. The work isn't finished yet, but we're quite near completion
and we'll publish soon a document explaining the revised interface.
In fact, we're quite impatient to make the change for two reasons: (a) the
new style is WAY better than the old one under all respects: efficiency,
maintainability, generality, intuitiveness, you name it. (b) keeping both
approaches functioning at once is possible (in the git/snapshot version
you get just that, in fact), but very costly. Therefore, we'd like to drop
the old syntax as soon as possible.
Of course I hear you, Sven. This would be a MASSIVE backward-incompatible
change, much bigger than any we had in the whole history of the project.
For this reason, we'd like to have an idea of how many people out there
are using the "kalman" command in a "production" environment; that is,
hansl scripts that HAVE TO WORK. If it's just a few, we can arrange a
somewhat "ad personam" migration strategy. If there are hundreds of such
cases (but I doubt it), we'll have to find another solution.
So please speak up! The sooner the better.
-------------------------------------------------------
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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8 years, 7 months
Problem with the gretl parsing inside a foreign block
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
Artur and I wanted to try something with Ox, but we ran into an error
message about an "unmatched {". See this example:
<hansl>
function void heyho(void)
foreign language=Ox
main()
{
}
end foreign
end function
heyho()
</hansl>
It seems the gretl parser is trying to enforce its rules for other
foreign languages as well.
Some months ago the script that now produces this error worked (I
think). The error appears both on Win and on Linux.
cheers,
sven
8 years, 7 months
Re: [Gretl-devel] [Gretl-users] Double loop
by Sven Schreiber
[moving to devel]
Maria answered off-list that there was no error, and indeed, see the
following example which produces nothing:
<hansl>
function void hi(void)
print "yo"
end
hi()
</hansl>
I think an incomplete "end" should trigger something.
thanks,
sven
Am 01.06.2016 um 09:31 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
>
> Am 01.06.2016 um 09:27 schrieb majo_arteaga(a)hotmail.com:
>> Yes! I fixed the problems some days ago but the main issue was that I
>> didn't write "end function". I'm used to Matlab syntax, but thank you
>> for helping me, Sven.
>
> ok, good.
>
>>
>> Is this really just "end"? It should be "end function".
>>
>
> of course, ideally the error message issued by gretl would give you an
> idea of what might be wrong. What error message did you get?
>
> thanks,
> sven
>
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8 years, 7 months
