Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
Talha wrote:
> Moreover, the decision to unsupport localized input was a big,
> big, big mistake. If a spreadsheet program decimal comma inputs
> because that is not very useful and/or hard to do, everyone would
> laugh.
And Andreas wrote:
This has been discussed before, but I think this criticism is just
mistaken. The support for decimal comma in Gretl is just as good as the
support in Excel.
I'm not going to spend long on this, but I think Andreas is right on
the factual point, and I don't really know what Talha means by a
"decision to unsupport localized input". We support the local
decimal character in the GUI to the extent possible without breaking
the hard-and-fast decision that we are not going to support anything
other than the decimal point in scripting. The latter point is just
a given and there's no profit in discussing it.
Allin