[Gretl-devel] accessing named matrix columns

It strikes me that in some cases it might be convenient to be able to extract a column from a gretl matrix that has column-names attached by name rather than column-number. The primary case I have in mind is a matrix returned by a function (or in a bundle returned by a function), where the columns basically represent series. So, given matrix M = some_func(some_args) series some_name = M[,4] one could do, say, matrix M = some_func(some_args) series some_name = M[,"forecast"] Any thoughts on this? If the idea seems attractive I can see about implementing it. Allin