Re: [Gretl-devel] new defbundle() function
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I'm afraid I don't get this example.
From the Guide:
<quote>
[I]f bundles b1 and b2 are defined you can say
bundle b3 = b1 + b2
to create a new bundle that is the union of the two others. The algorithm
is: create a new bundle that is a copy of b1, then add any items from b2
whose keys are not already present in the new bundle. (This means that
bundle union is not commutative if the bundles have one or more key
strings in common.)
</quote>
But apart from that, I have a minor issue with the syntax/notation
inside the
parentheses. Couldn't the name-content pairs be structured better, like:
a = defbundle("eins", 1; "zwei", 2)
or
a = defbundle("eins" 1, "zwei" 2)
or even:
a = defbundle("eins": 1, "zwei": 2)
I'm afraid that would be rather expensive to implement, while just using
commas puts no stress on our tokenizer. I'm happy with the present syntax.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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