Re: [Gretl-devel] optional arguments (was Re: irf() and fevd())
Am 28.05.2018 um 15:47 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Am 28.05.2018 um 03:11 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>>
>> I need to think some more about this. _Maybe_ there's a viable mode
>> of generalization.
>>
> If not, then I'd be in favor of removing it (or un-document it) in
> strsplit, even though it's nice there. But it hasn't been around for
> long.
Agreed!
I've begun to think about the generalization question and I can sort
of see a mechanism that could do the job, but implementing it would be
a substantial piece of work. Definitely not something to embark upon
with a release imminent. Maybe the best plan for now is to remove the
claim in the strsplit doc and revisit the point later.
I think so, too. Not being explicit about argument defaults in the
middle was already a nice step forward for hansl. Removing the extra
commas would be another workaround for the lack of non-positional
arguments, but in the end it would also be a workaround. In the medium
term at least I believe the status quo is perfectly fine. I tend to
think that if there is ever going to be a substantial generalization,
the aim should be keyword arguments as in other languages. But again, if
ever.
thanks,
sven