Re: [Gretl-devel] Fwd: Re: slight inconsistency with strstr truth value
Am 12.03.2018 um 17:50 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> (which can now be accomplished in git via instring(s1, s2)).
As you
>> say the FEP GUI seems to be the only exception.
Mind you, I haven't really looked systematically, just making educated
guesses...
> So I'm now thinking, is there much point in delaying the
switch? With
> a very minor update to FEP all our packages would be OK, and the
> string-as-boolean thing was never documented; seems to me only those
> following a rather arcane discussion 1.5 years ago would even be
> tempted in that direction, and apparently the temptation has not been
> strong.
>
> If there's strong objection I'll back off, but I'm inclined to remove
> string-as-boolean from gretl 2018a (with a message in the
> backward-incompatibility log, of course).
You have my vote
No strong objection, although I don't think keeping it in there
undocumented until 2018b would hurt much. But I understand if you
(Allin) want to get things off your to-be-remembered-list.
cheers,
sven