[Gretl-devel] string arrays

Dear all, I'm aware that backward-incompatibilty should in principle be avoided. However, it occurred to me that we introduced string arrays only after (more or less) clever workarounds to their absence. Typical cases are: * the modprint command * the varname() function (yes I know about varnames(), but it's a hack) * the jsonget() function * the labels command * the colnames() and rownames() function etc etc. Clearly, a redesign of all these would be optimal, but it would involve a major revision of hundreds of scripts out there; however, like always, the sooner this is done, the better. Opinions? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------