[Gretl-devel] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: the choose() function

On 13.06.21 23:34, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 13.06.2021 um 18:45 schrieb Summers, Peter: >>> Once everything’s finalized I’d be glad to update the >>> matlab_utilities package to include this functionality (which is >>> very nice, btw). >> >> OK, excellent. We'll be glad to offer assistance if something's not >> clear, for example how to add the dependency on the 'extra' addon to >> your package, if indeed the new function will live there. > > If matlab_utilities included a dependency on extra, we could just add > nchoosek() as a wrapper, using the new "numeric" type to tell apart > the cases when to use bincoeff() and the choose() or combinations() > function from extra. > Good idea, although nobody here knows about the generic "numeric" type yet, I guess. (But it's in the changelog alright) This would require brand new gretl 2021b, however.