Re: [Gretl-devel] strange (misleading?) parser message
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
absolutely nothing dramatic here, but kind of strange. I had a
missing
parenthesis in the following line (truncated by gretl in the error printout):
> refac = rescale ? sqrt( Teff / (Teff - rows(coeff) ) :
Erwartete ',' aber fand ':'
(The message says "expected ',' but found ':'.)
This error message reflects the fact that the parser had not
correctly registered the fact that sqrt() is a single-argument
function. (Otherwise the error message would be correct: a comma
would be expected before the next argument; it would be too soon to
conclude that the problem was an unmatched left parenthesis.)
That's now fixed in CVS.
Allin