[Gretl-devel] Re: cnameset (rnameset): no error on mismatch

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > when using cnameset (and presumably also rnameset) with input that > doesn't match the dimensions, nothing happens. See here: > > <hansl> > matrix m = ones(2)    # column > cnameset(m, defarray("a","b")) # doesn't match, should give an error? > print m > </hansl> > > I wonder if an error should be thrown instead? Or else perhaps the first > available elements of the array should be used? Meybe, but it's operating per documentation: requiring a number of strings equal to the number of columns and returning non-zero on error. ? matrix m = ones(2) Generated matrix m ? eval cnameset(m, defarray("a","b"))