[Gretl-devel] more natural/general fcast (in systems)

Hi, the following code doesn't work because as per the spec in the system case the 'varname' argument should pick one of the endogenous variables (only) to be forecast. <hansl> open denmark smpl 1 50 var 2 LRY LRM IBO fcast 1986:3 1987:3 LRY LRM # more than one variable </hansl> However, given that normally in gretl you can use a list in the same way as you would use a series (except if it really really has to be a single variable only), it would seem natural that you could specify more than one series in this context. (In the single-equ. case you would instead define a new variable name for the fitted values; let me add that this semantic overloading of the argument strikes me as problematic. I would prefer to have systems and single-equs treated in close analogy. But it's probably too late now.) Finally, violations of the 'fcast' syntax right now produce quite generic "data" or "syntax" errors, perhaps they could be made more informative -- 'wrong number of arguments', 'object doesn't exist', or something like that. thanks, sven