Re: [Gretl-devel] error catching failing for "catch var..."

On Mon, 22 May 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > I have the following strange behavior which was a bit difficult to track > down. Sorry, cannot give a minimal example because the problem then doesn't > appear. In my more complex setup it's reproducible, however. > > The trigger is a "var 0 endolist" command, which is invalid because the lag > order isn't positive. (Actually it's "var km1 endolist; xlist @somestring > --silent", and km1 sometimes happens to be 0.) > My first minor complaint is that here gretl's error message could be a bit > more specific than just "invalid argument". Ah, that was specific to giving a variable rather than a numerical value for the lag order. Now fixed in git: either way you'll see Invalid lag order 0 > OK, so I'm trying to use "catch", and immediately after the "catch var" > line I have: > > err = $error > if err > print err > <...> > endif > > But: Now gretl, instead of printing the err and so on, throws another error > message "unpaired if" (re-translated from German). How can that be? That > must be bogus, because gretl doesn't complain in all those cases where > $error==0 (which happens most of the time; all this is inside a random > simulation loop). OK, not sure about that; I'll take a closer look.