Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl 1.9.11: once more on isscalar etc.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Ok so isscalar() was broken, ismatrix() didn't exist -- what the
hell
has existed and worked in that area :-)
No similar function has ever existed. We've always been at war with
Eurasia. Ignorance is strength. Allin is watching you.
I will say one last time that I don't find the need to avoid
strings for
performance reasons convincing -- I mean this function would not be used
in a loop with thousands of repititions, right?
Who knows. It's very hard to say in advance. And I can assure you that
anything involving strings is _much_ slower. (And no, this isn't Orwell.)
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