On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber@fu-berlin.de> 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.