[Gretl-devel] Re: argname error
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> not sure why the following fails, given the documentation of 'argname':
>
> <hansl>
> function void ch(matrix m[null], string s[null])
> if exists(m)
> eval argname(m)
> elif exists(s)
> eval argname(s)
> endif
> end function
>
> string s_in = "hey"
> ch(, s_in) # error, expect "s_in"
This is due to an ambivalence specific to string variables.
Well, I now think this (mis)behavior is new, fallout from my recent
addition of an optional second argument to argname(). I'll work on a
fix.
Allin