On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Some time ago it was asked whether the structure of the manual could
be
optimized. Here's a suggestion which probably doesn't attain the optimum
but IMHO could be an improvement:
- Introduce a new part "Programming in gretl (a.k.a. introduction to
'hansl')". This part would (initially) consist of chapters 9 through 13
(maybe also 14).
- Convert chapter 12 (lists and strings) into sections of chapter 11
(data types). I also thought about doing the same with chapter 13
(matrices), but matrices are so important and chapter 13 so long that it
probably deserves to be left as is.
- move chapter 10 (functions) to the end of the new hansl part (i.e.
after what's now chapter 13 or chapter 14)
what do you think?
Actually, I think that at this stage hansl deserves its own manual, more
or less like Doornik's "Introduction to Ox"
(
http://www.doornik.com/ox/OxIntro.pdf). It's something I've been thinking
about for a while. The only problem is that it'd be rather time consuming to
write, and I'm not exactly idle in this period.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti