[Gretl-devel] two slightly confusing things in the manual and one suggestion

Hi, to prove that at least some (n>=1) people do read the manual here are some things I noticed today: 1) I once was taught on this list that "loop for i=1..x" is just a tolerated syntax error, not the correct form (which is "loop i=1..x"). However, I noticed today that this idiom is used in the manual, so I suggest to correct that. (This is something I probably could even do myself in cvs.) 2) similarly, the "secret" short form "-q" for "--quiet" is also used in the manual and probably never explained 3) and a suggestion: in a foreach loop many variables which are contiguous in the dataset can be referred to like this: loop foreach i var1..var99 This is explained in the manual, otherwise I wouldn't know it. When I was dealing with 51 weekly dummies today I thought that it would be very useful to have this syntax also for definition of lists, or maybe even directly in estimation commands. Example: # shortest form (suggestion) ols myvar const dummy_1..dummy_51 # slightly longer, with new list definition list weekdummies = dummy_1..dummy_51 ols myvar const weekdummies # best possible thing today (AFAIK): list weekdummies = null loop foreach i dummy_1..dummy_51 list weekdummies += $i endloop ols myvar const weekdummies Or is there some existing trick that I'm not aware of? thanks, sven