[Gretl-devel] Re: varlist inside function (and furthermore strange append effect)
Am 20.06.2021 um 20:12 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> minor follow-up issue: Doing "return dataset" in the function fails, but
> the more verbose two-liner works:
>
> list out = dataset
>
> return out
>
> So it kind of looks to me as if doing "return dataset" directly could
> also be allowed syntax.
My first thought is that "dataset" should not be allowed as a
list-name inside a function.
Well, it does work already! I can understand why the special form should
not be over-stretched as in "return dataset", but then there might be
"return deflist(dataset)" (untested).
But seriously, there appear to be clear rules as to which series are
locally available inside a function. Why should 'dataset' be banned then
in that context?
cheers
sven