Re: [Gretl-devel] Fwd: Re: slight inconsistency with strstr truth value

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:

>> Yes, I think that s the conclusion we’ve reached as well. And because >> it was undocumented “if foo” will also be banned after the respective >> function packages (mine, perhaps Oleh’s?) have been adjusted. At >> least that’s my interpretation of the discussion. Hmm, I've just added a compile-time switch in genmain.c, STR_AS_BOOL, whereby one can turn off interpretation of strings as boolean values. In my working copy I've flipped this switch and run all my tests (all addons, all function packages, numerous test scripts gathered over the years), and I'm not seeing any failures. Are we sure that strings are used as booleans in any packages? If so, could you give me an example? (It may be that there's some "backdoor" way a string could get taken as a boolean that has escaped my notice and has not really been turned off.)