Re: [Gretl-devel] changes regarding genr and lists
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> Up till now, however, this would also work:
>
> matrix m = { x1 x2 x3 }
>
> This was just sloppiness, and it won't work any more.
I hope there are not many scripts around that rely on the latter
syntax...
After writing my note, I realized that the formulation above
actually _should_ work now (though it shouldn't have worked
before!). Because, in effect, it's
matrix m = { <implicit list> }
and lists are supposed to be OK in that context. I'll work on
that. (The trouble right now is that only named lists are
accepted in that context.)
Thank you, this is really useful. From the user side we have
obvious benefits; the benefits on the developer side are maybe
less obvious, but even more dramatic: we get rid of a series of
ad-hoc treatments and incorporate lists fully into the genr
jurisdiction. I guess that in the future, when time allows,
we'll have to do the same with strings.
Yes. Though we're not totally free of ad-hocery on lists just
yet; but getting better.
Allin.