[Gretl-devel] scripting-related

Hi gretlers, I just experienced a strange bug that disappeared when I changed all lines containing just the name of a matrix, say beta_star (to print it, like on p.70 of the manual), to an explicit 'print beta_star' line. Before the change, gretl threw an error like "command 'beta_sta' not known" (note the 8-char truncation). What was especially strange was that the line 'beta_star' was coming after an if-check that in this particular case was FALSE, and so the syntax of the line should have been completely irrelevant. (And gretl indeed did not execute the other statements in the if-block before the beta_star line.) Sorry, but I wasn't able to construct a small self-contained example, so it seems relatively subtle. However I am pretty confident it is a bug because as I said, with the explicit 'print xx' variant everything *seems* to work now. -- BTW, another unrelated thing: I still see the following in the first line of a newly fired up gretl-console: gretl-Konsole: geben Sie 'help' für eine Liste von Befehlen ein ?help Befehl 'elp' unbekannt ? And while I'm at it, during function-debugging I often have to close and restart gretl because it starts reporting nonsense errors (that go away just by re-loading everything) after the first function error has occurred. I know that's a pretty vague bug report, but it seems that gretl may need to clean up its internals a little more after it encountered a function error... Anyway, I don't think these things should hold up a new release. Are there still any other open issues? (Oh, apart from the shell-command synchronicity thing on Windows... I will test that eventually.) Cheers, Sven