[Gretl-devel] Re: string substitution with bundle elements
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 20.08.2021 um 17:53 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> we may have discussed this before, not sure. I guess the following is
>> simply not supported and not a bug?
>>
>> <hansl>
>> open denmark
>> string a = "quiet"
>> bundle b = defbundle("a","quiet")
>>
>> ols LRM 0 --@a # works
>> ols LRM 0 --(a)b.a # fails
>> </hansl>
>
> Yep, simply not supported.
Right.
Then I was thinking of the "setopt" alternative, and this apparently
does not accept a string variable, as in:
string a = "--quiet"
setopt ols a # error
But
string a = "--quiet"
setopt ols @a
as does
if should_be_quiet
setopt ols --quiet
endif
(making a condition, not a string, the relevant variable).
Allin