Re: [Gretl-devel] Older discussion at gretl-users & Bundles
> catch testB(&boo.coo) #not OK
OT: catch is only supported on built-in functions, not user-defined ones
> Including lists within bundles allows to do operations like sampling
> and manipulating series located outside the bundle (which is great!),
I don't have time right now to think about what was in your code and what
you meant, but this sounds dangerous as well; "manipulating outside..." is
not normally what we want to have/allow.
ah, the catch is not important. In my script I tested some more stuff afterwards and catch
allowed to move on and not stop on error (which is nice).
One way I use this frequently is a small function that adds noise to constant series, thus
allowing to draw a boxplot even if there is no variance. Another thing is to read in
variable names from outside series. Perhaps a "switch" to allow passing lists to
bundles is good, but please do not remove this option :). Btw., if you pass a list to a
function directly, this works the same (my noisyfied uses a list as input and creates for
each constant series a noisyfied substitute. Then it returns a list with original series
and noisyfied series, where appropriate)
Best
Frederik