[Gretl-devel] Re: 'msplitby' quirks

Am 12.08.2021 um 17:28 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >> I tested a little bit, and mostly it works fine I think. Some minor >> observations: >> >> - If the rows (or cols) are not dividible by "by", I get an "invalid >> arg" error. Perhaps "Matrix not conformable" would be a more informative >> error? >> >> - (Probably not new behavior:) A scalar in place of M does not seem to >> be allowed, as in msplitby(2, {1}). Of course this operation does not >> look very useful, but it could arise in a corner case in a function or >> script. And my understanding is that gretl always tries to allow a >> scalar where a 1x1 matrix is valid, and msplitby({2}, {1}) already works. > > Those two points are now addressed in git. thanks for the quick reaction!