[Gretl-devel] Re: ui-maker and missing warning messages

On 16/02/2026 10:53, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Good morning, > > this is again about authoring a function package and using ui-maker. > Take conditional sensitivity, for example. I'm often making the > mistake that I don't use a string there, i.e. I don't put the name of > the argument in quotes. Example: _(depends=hey) instead of > _(depends="hey"). > > When building the package (via gretlcli -m), gretl doesn't complain > about this, it just doesn't work (understandably). It would be > helpful if gretl complained if the type is wrong in this context, > i.e. not a string. Well, the variable "hey" could well be a string, in the context of the ui-maker function, containing the value "hey". Just sayin'