Re: [Gretl-devel] some bugs and issues
On 02/01/2012 10:33 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
> But again, given the existing GUI preference option for choosing the
> style of the decimal separator, I think there is a strong case for
> requiring this chosen style in the GUI, which resolves all ambiguities.
> (At the cost of introducing a new character for function argument
> separation in the GUI, which would have to be suitably documented.)
A couple of comments on this.
First, I wonder how many users want to see the decimal comma
on output, but would prefer to keep the input in a "genr" box
consistent with hansl?
can only speculate, but why should anybody really want that?
Second, there's another character that would need fixing,
namely the ';' that is used for terminating a matrix row, as
in
m = {1.1, 2.2 ; 3.3, 4.4}
Sigh -- ok, so instead of changing this it would mean to choose some
other character for function argument separation. Not much sensible
stuff is left if it should be a single ASCII char: %@_ ? Of course this
doesn't look at all readable...
-sven