Re: [Gretl-devel] Backward compatibility
El Tuesday 06 November 2007 04:17:47 Allin Cottrell escribió:
> 4) enable GRETL_TYPE_STRING as a function argument and store a
> copy of the string in the global array, only marked at a
> different level. The copy should be destroyed on function exit.
Yes, IMO this is the only sane way to go. I've made a start on
it. The modifications to the existing code are not too severe.
I'll test tomorrow than make a snapshot available.
Thank you. I will test it with my scripts when this be available.
> There is also another command that worked in the previous
> version but it is not working now:
> matrix A = { NA, NA, NA, NA }
Sorry, that was never supposed to work: it was a definite bug that
you could do that and not get an error message. The bug is now
fixed. The point is that we're supposed to able to do arbitrary C
floating-point arithmetic with matrices, and you can't do that
with NAs. So matrices are not allowed to contain NA. I'm pretty
sure it's in the manual.
Perhaps I should ask: why do you want NAs in a matrix? Maybe we
can think of an alternative approach.
Don't worry, It only afected to some matrix output that I was printing through
the printf command. I can do that in another way.
Allin, do you remember my problem with the decimal commas?
I have just updated my Kubuntu to version 7.10 and ... the problem
disappeared! So I suppose something was ill-configured in my previous setup.
Thanks to you and Hélio Guilherme for your help in trying to resolve this
problem.
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