Re: [Gretl-devel] revision of index loop?
Am 13.08.2018 um 23:09 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
context, which is not what I'm (sorta) proposing. So maybe
despite
this useful information we're really back to square one: does the
putative gain in transparency outweight the redundancy?
Actually (without wanting to bury your current proposal) I think where
hansl loops could shine in terms of being intuitive would be an
extension of the 'loop foreach' stuff. Imagine you could write
"loop foreach {1, 3, 5, 10}" and some accessor $index (or whatever)
would take these non-consecutive values. Or for some pre-defined array
(of strings, matrices...) arr you could write "loop foreach arr" (or if
you prefer: loop foreach i arr). That would be nice! Probably not so
easy to implement, though, I guess - sigh.
cheers,
sven