Re: [Gretl-devel] [almost OT] Julia experience
Am 14.01.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we talked a little bit about the Julia language at the Berlin
> conference (off-programme). Now I saw a report about the New York
> Fed converting a model from Matlab to Julia:
>
> https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/MatlabToJuliaTransi...
>
>
>
> Could be interesting.
The whole Dynare project is jumping boat.
Also interesting indeed.
One thing that caught my attention in the article above was the
complaint about Matlab only having positional function arguments
(AFAIK). Now I'm reluctant to write this because it is such a
fundamental thing, but to be honest the same limitation is sometimes
bothering me with gretl (or hansl, really) as well.
I suppose adding keyword arguments to hansl is really too error-prone in
terms of development, so I'm not really asking for it. And AFAICS
bundles are supposed to be a workaround. The only thing that bothers me
with bundles is that it takes so many lines of code to add a couple of
members. Sometimes I think it would be nice to do these trivial
assignments on one line, as in:
b.a = 2; b.alpha = res; b.info = "yep"
So effectively introducing another statement separation character in
addition to the current "newline".
FWIW,
sven