Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote:
> It is a relief to see Riccardo and I are not the only obsessed
people
> here. Seriously though, is it really that hard, in comparison to all
> the effort and what is already in there, to provide this feature? I
> mean, all that is needed is a clever interpretation layer that will
> switch commas with dots. It is probably a bit more complicated than
> that but still it cannot be like designing a system like Unicode
> involving rules and properties to support dozens of different writing
> systems.
>
>
I think you are really alone on this one. Again, can you give a name of a
programming/scripting language supporting this? Anyway, Riccardo and Allin
have been pretty clear on their views on this but you could try to program
such an interpretation layer and show its merits.
I think that Talha's suggestion refer to the GUI elements only, and
(unless I'm mistaken) he's not proposing to change anything
scripting-related. Because otherwise, you'd have to deal with problems
like the interpretation of
<hansl>
matrix boo = { 1,2 }
</hansl>
which would obviously be a nightmare.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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