[Gretl-devel] Backward compatibility

I suppose you remember my message about building a function with one input series and several output series, that I wanted to be named accordingly to the input series (see http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2007-June/001722.html ). I needed a "string" parameter in a function, but given that string parameters are not allowed in a function I solved my problem using an external string inside my function (I know this is not very smart but ... ). The problem now is that this was working properly with gretl-1.6.6.pre1 (in Linux and Windows), but it does not work with the current version of gretl-1.6.6.pre2 (Linux and Windows). You have below a simple script that can work in gretl-1.6.6.pre1 but not in gretl-1.6.6.pre2. There is also another command that worked in the previous version but it is not working now: matrix A = { NA, NA, NA, NA } These two questions are breaking some of the scripts I am doing for a third part, so I would be very grateful if they could work again. -----------------Example script-------------- function sillyfunction(series sername) #... some calculus, for example: series @sname_f1=sername+sername(-1)+sername(-2)+sername(-3) series @sname_f2=sername+sername(+1) list outlist = @sname_f1 @sname_f2 return list outlist end function open data9-9 string sname="nocars" list alist = sillyfunction(@sname) -- 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.et.bs.ehu.es