Re: [Gretl-devel] ema, obs and optional parameter

El mié, 17-02-2010 a las 09:55 -0500, Allin Cottrell escribió: > > While I'm all for a cleanup along Ignacio's lines (and maybe more, as I > > mentioned before), I'm also against script-breaking changes, as you > > know. These changes seem to be quite disruptive. > > I agree. What we have at the moment is, in effect, "implicit > obsnum() conversion" for syntactical elements that can be > recognized unambiguously as candidates for such conversion. My > suggestion would be: > > (a) re-word the manual (and rewrite any packaged scripts that use > this implicit conversion) to use obsnum() explicitly, for the sake > of clarity as Ignacio suggests, but > > (b) do not actually remove the implicit conversion, so that old > scripts are not broken. (I'm not aware of any actual problems > generated by the implicit conversion, other than a certain lack of > clarity.) Ok, that is perfect ! > > > AFAIK there is a general idea floating around to have a release > > at some point with a lot of backward incompatibilities, and of > > course also a lot of cleanups. Jack started a wiki page about > > it. Maybe it's time to make some concrete plans for gretl 2.0 or > > whatever it will be called? Like for the next gretl conference, > > or 02/02 next year... > > OK by me. I will have a look at this list in the wiki page, and send some comments. BTW, Jack, will it be possible to have the second gretl conference at Ancona? You should decide that soon, because in case you prefer not to do it in Ancona in 2011, I think the Polish people, or may be others, could be interested in organizing it. -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.ea3.ehu.es _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel