[Gretl-devel] Re: glitches with bundles and systems: bug or not supported?

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 09.01.2021 um 22:14 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Am 09.01.2021 um 16:44 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > >>> we could support an array of strings variant, something like: >>> >>> strings R = defarray("b[1,2] = 0", "b[2,1] = 0") >>> restrict $system >>>    strings R >>> end restrict >>> >>> with the keyword "strings" guiding gretl's interpretation. > > [Not the main point of this reply, but: wouldn't it be a problem that > normally "strings" is an alias for "genr", but here it's not? Of course > the context resolves this, but still.] Yes, "strings" may not be the best keyword for that context. We already have "Rvec" so we could use "Rstrings". But if we think this approach might be helpful for programmatic handling of other block-commands then a more generic keyword would be wanted, maybe "cmdstrings" or similar.

BTW this facility (with keyword "strings", and for "restrict" only) is now in git. (I'm confident it's a harmless experiment.)