[Gretl-devel] beginner's (but understandable) problem on the console

Hi, I'm relaying a usability issue report which I think could lead to improvements. (This is not meant for the release in progress, but in general.) First, if you type in an expression on the console, gretl will not automatically evaluate it. Instead we have the 'eval' command. However, most interpreted programming languages out there will directly spit out the result on what you type in at the prompt. Why not gretl? Or to put it more formally: I suggest that whenever gretl's parser cannot make sense of the console input and would respond with an error message, it should try to automatically prepend an 'eval' and see if that works. Secondly (a minor bug), sometimes you get the error message "incomplete expression", for example if you type in "y[2]" instead of "eval y[2]". But this message is misleading, because as an _expression_ in a computer science sense y[2] is perfectly valid I think. Instead the error could read, "incomplete command" or perhaps "incomplete statement". thanks, sven