[Gretl-devel] issue with conditional assignment

With current git, the command <hansl> string sep = "\" </hansl> works ok, but the conditional assignment statement <hansl> string sep = $windows ? "\" : "/" </hansl> gives an error, because the backslash is considered an escaping character. This breaks the xy_color packages (and possibly some more). More generally, the funny thing is that <hansl> string sep = 1 ? "/" : "\" string sep = 0 ? "/" : "\" </hansl> both work ok, so I guess it has something to do with the parsing of the command string. I found out about this by chance, so I have no idea of how long this (possible) bug has been there. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------