[Gretl-devel] Re: CRASH: 'fcast' after 'var'

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 01.07.2019 um 22:38 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes, the bug is quite nasty, I think we ought to release soon. >> >> I'm ready to release tomorrow -- anyone have a reason to hold off for >> a little? >> > I don't want to delay the release, but the interface (signature) of the > new function msplitby() strikes me as odd. The example in the built-in > reference is a perfect (sic!) example for this oddity - the matrix X > should be split into two chunks (AFAICS), but instead of being able to > write... > > msplitby(X, {1,1,3})    # unsupported syntax currently > > the example goes like... > > msplitby(X ~ {1,1,3}', 4) > > which even to me as a veteran hansl coder looks quite complicated. I > don't really see the advantage of the latter formulation. I think you're right. If the split-index column is treated as special (specifically, not wanted in the output) it would be cleaner to make the second argument a vector in its own right rather than a column number. Since this function is not present in any release I guess we could change the signature now.