[Gretl-devel] 'msplitby' quirks

Hi, working with flatten() and msplitby(), I'm noticing the following: - By default, flatten() works horizontally, but msplitby() vertically (rows). Ok it's too late to change any defaults, but actually msplitby() currently doesn't do horizontally at all. (Yes, I know I can transpose and re-transpose, but that's exactly what I call a "quirk".) Maybe an optional arg could be added there as well, like flatten() has? - For some easy operations, msplitby() is quite complicated. For example, if I have 2000 rows and want to turn that into 1000 matrices with 2 rows each, then AFAIK I have to define the assignment vector as follows: seq(1,1000)' ** ones(2). (Please correct me if there's a simple way I'm missing.) Instead I think for such even splits it should be as straightforward as writing: msplitby(m, 2). Maybe such a scalar argument could be allowed in non-ambiguous cases? thanks sven