[Gretl-devel] Re: ui-maker news

Am 15.06.26 um 13:15 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 4:23 AM Sven Schreiber > <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: >> Am 14.06.2026 um 19:35 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: >>> >>> Note that the criterion in the "discrete" case is a bit more liberal >>> than the built-in isdiscrete() function. More details can be found in >>> the current version of pkgbook.pdf (or pkgbook-a4.pdf). >>> >> Thanks, Allin - but any reason why the two discreteness checks should be >> different? (Sorry, haven't looked at pkgbook yet.) > That point is debatable. Perhaps the isdiscrete() function should act > in the "more liberal" way, since if you want to know whether a series > is explicitly marked as discrete you can check the "discrete" member > of the bundle returned by getinfo(). To see what exactly the more > liberal variant does, take a look at gretl_isdiscrete() in > gretl_utils.c. > > Ah, so it seems to be about the discrete flag vs. the actual numerical property. Perhaps the isdiscrete() function could get a second optional argument to trigger the same factual check.