[Gretl-devel] Re: ui-maker and missing warning messages

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: > Am 16.02.2026 um 11:00 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On 16/02/2026 10:53, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> Good morning, >>> >>> this is again about authoring a function package and using ui-maker. >>> Take conditional sensitivity, for example. I'm often making the >>> mistake that I don't use a string there, i.e. I don't put the name of >>> the argument in quotes. Example: _(depends=hey) instead of >>> _(depends="hey"). >>> >>> When building the package (via gretlcli -m), gretl doesn't complain >>> about this, it just doesn't work (understandably). It would be >>> helpful if gretl complained if the type is wrong in this context, >>> i.e. not a string. >> Well, the variable "hey" could well be a string, in the context of the >> ui-maker function, containing the value "hey". Just sayin' >> > But in the context of _(depends=hey) in the ui-maker function, the > unquoted symbol 'hey' is undefined. (It's an argument in a different > function.) In that sense it's even weirder that there's no error message. I think Jack's point stands. In your ui-maker 'hey' is undefined, but it _could_ be defined: for instance, one might make the dependency parameter string conditional on some feature of the dataset.