[Gretl-devel] Re: OT: quiet loop (Re: Re: x-range for scatters using daily data)
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Am 02.03.2020 um 10:06 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>>
>>> loop i = 1 .. ntics --quiet
>>
>> I absolutely don't want to hijack this thread, but we write loop ...
>> --quiet so often that I wonder whether the equivalent of 'setopt loop
>> persist --quiet' shouldn't be promoted to a user-settable option in the
>> GUI preferences.
>> (I guess to override temporarily then loop would need a --verbose
>> option...)
>
> Agreed. We could maybe even countenance mild backward incompatibility:
> make "loop" quiet by default and add a --verbose option. If we did
> that we'd continue to accept the --quiet option, of course, but it
> would do nothing.
Hm, I like this
Should we just go ahead and do this for the forthcoming release?
"loop" is something that goes way back in gretl history, and the
verbose behavior in the absence of the --quiet flag was pretty much
a debugging thing, perhaps useful when the facility was first
introduced. I'd be very surprised if anyone would actually miss it.
Allin