Re: [Gretl-devel] still some function package editing problems
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
-- ok, so IMHO gretl should not allow to leave the return value
name empty in the package call GUI. Right now it seems possible
to not provide a name for the returned object and still call the
function. As a result it appears that the return value is
discarded. I cannot see the use of that behavior, so I propose
that gretl catches that specific user input error.
Not sure I agree on that. A function may, for example, print
something the user is interested in (e.g. some sort of hypothesis
test) and offer a return that is only of interest to experts (say,
a vector of relatively "raw" values that could be further
processed).
Why should the GUI user be forced to assign the return, when the
script user is free to ignore it?
Allin.