[Gretl-devel] Re: tobit's --quiet flag to quite guiet
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:52 AM Marcin Błażejowski <marcin(a)wrzosy.nsb.pl> wrote:
On 19.01.2023 14:47, Cottrell, Allin wrote:
> Or more efficiently:
>
> outfile null
> # do stuff silently
> end outfile
Well, it works of course but for me it is a trick rather than a true
solution. It is because the message does not come from triggered command
but from underlying apparatus. So from my point of view suppressing any
messages from optimizers by 'set' command to silent/quiet/whatever would
be better.
My proposal here would be to modify the effect of "set warnings off"
to set all warnings off -- not just, as at present, to turn off
warnings regarding NAs produced by genr.
(There would be a warning in the doc for this setting!)
My feeling is that neither --quiet nor even --silent as applied to
individual commands should suppress warnings; they're about reducing
or eliminating regular output.
Allin