Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl 1.9.11: once more on isscalar etc.

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote: > For now, let me just take this to the practicalities of the > next release. If you have any interest in this, please give > me your views on these two points: > > 1) The isscalar() function. This was introduced about 4 years > ago but never documented. It has been broken (I think) for the > past 3 years or so, until I fixed it a few days back. Should > we drop this function? Keep it and document it? Or leave it in > undocumented limbo? (I don't like the last option myself.) >

> 2) My recent modification to the inbundle() function, which > now returns an integer code for the type of the bundled data. > Keep this modification and document it? Or revert it? If we > keep it, I'm assuming we'd also want to keep and document the > new typestr() function, which turns the return code from > inbundle() into a comprehensible string such as "scalar". I'd keep the new version of inbundle() and typestr(). At that point, we may scrap isscalar(), which was never "officially" supported anyway.