Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI package call: assign return value "optional"
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:
next (small) issue:
In the GUI dialog for a function package call it says that specifying a
return variable is "optional". Technically it's true but IMHO a package
author should have an influence on the formulation there. For many
packages the main results will be in the returned variable, not in the
printout.
Or does the "spec" file have something to do with that?
We did discuss this before -- and the suggestion was made that a function
writer could somehow signal that there was no point in running a given
function if the return value was not assigned.
I can't remember if I did anything about that; I'll check.
Allin