Re: [Gretl-devel] functions vs commands (was Re: Octave support)

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote: [Sorry, but I'll skip the > 1 quotation levels, since they get a bit confusing here.] I think you may have mistaken Jack's point. I took him to be saying that a "milestone release" that is mostly just backward incompatible changes is likely to please few people and annoy quite a number. Clean-up is pleasing to the coders, and to folks such as yourself you are concerned with consistency and syntax-cleanliness (and rightly so) but not to many "punters". So the idea (or at least, my idea, but I think it's Jack's) is that if we're going to do a substantial clean-up we have to sweeten the deal with some substantial new functionality. "It's worth the bother of updating your old gretl scripts because look what new gretl is offering!" Allin.