Re: [Gretl-devel] printf poll?

At present we have three commands in this neighbourhood: print, printf and eval. Some might say that's already too many (though actually I wouldn't agree, for reasons I've tried to explain up-thread). However, surely it ought to be enough! And in particular, I really don't want to introduce into hansl a "competitor" to printf -- because, as I've already said, I think that printf is the better design for complex mixtures of text and numerics (though of course everyone doesn't have to agree with me on that). That said, I can see a case for making it easier to output very simple stuff such as a string followed by a scalar on the same line. In git there's an experiment to this effect; here's an example: <hansl> set echo off set messages off answer = 42 print "The number of roads a man must walk down is " -n eval answer </hansl> The option -n (long form "--no-break") tells "print" not to add a line-break; therefore the "eval" output follows directly: <output> The number of roads a man must walk down is 42 </output> I don't know if anyone will consider this worthwhile.