[Gretl-devel] Re: slight convenience extension to funcerr()

Am 16.03.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > function-variant of "catch", as in > >   catch(maybe_bogus_input, "can't do that") > > meaning: if the antecedent is true, do funcerr with the consequent as > error message. > > Either way it's an overloading and I'm not sure my suggestion is better, > but to my mind it's more logical to put the condition first, then the > response, and we can't prepend an argument to funcerr without backward > incompatibility. That's exactly what I was thinking, too. OTOH funcerr() was introduced less than 3 months ago (not counting the pre-release phase), so maybe it wouldn't be too bad to break compatibility here? (After a thorough check of the packages, of course.)