Re: [Gretl-devel] some bugs and issues

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Berend Hasselman wrote: > I agree with Jack. No syntactical sloppiness, please. > > As far as I am concerned, the only place where I would be > prepared to accept a locale dependent decimal point > character in GUI input is where a user can input pure > numbers only. Nowhere else. I find myself in agreement with this. There are various places in the gretl GUI where a dialog box (or similar) wants a plain number, and for a long time we have accommodated numbers entered using either '.' or (in the relevant locales) the decimal comma. I don't propose to change this at present. On the other hand, for the "genr" dialog (and the sample restriction dialog, which invokes genr) I'm agree that we'd not really be doing users a favor by providing a half-baked "fix-up" mechanism for decimal commas. What I've added in current CVS and snapshots is smarter error-handling. So if you're using the decimal comma for output in the gretl GUI, and you enter a "genr"-type formula that has a syntax error in the form of a misplaced comma, you should see not just "syntax error", but a new, specific translatable message: "Please note: the decimal character must be '.'\n" "in this context" That leaves the matter of the "plot a curve" dialog, where we've historically been doing fix-up for the decimal comma. There's a case for putting this in line with "genr", but I'm not going to make a backward incompatible change right now. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel