Re: [Gretl-devel] "if matrices == null" bug?
Am 20.12.2017 um 15:09 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
Maybe it's time to reconsider: how disruptive would it be to
change the
behavior with list arguments to match that with other objects?
very much so, I'm afraid. Jack called it "wreaking havoc" a year ago.
Of course in principle I'd like some clever internal gretl workaround
that would allow a meaningful exists() on lists in functions while
preserving compatibility with direct use of nelem() as well as the old
sometimes paradoxical isnull().
However, we were just reminded that a lot remains to be done in the
documentation department. So I think for now cleaning up and updating
the various documentation parts is fine and might pre-empt the majority
of problems.
cheers,
sven