[Gretl-devel] Re: [Gretl-users] accessing $vcv etc.
[devel-list only now; just keep me cc-ed please]
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb:
On Fri, October 13, 2006 15:22, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> I can see the point, although personally I use (or would like to
>> use) gretl differently.
> I can see a case for having the behaviour that you expected (i.e.
> estimating a model via the gui updates the "last model" as seen
> from the console). That wouldn't be difficult to do.
>
Hmm. I don't know. I'm not able to say precisely why, but I'm not
comfortable
with the idea that the result of a script may be influenced by something
outside the script itself. Sven, could you give us a little more detail as to
what your plan is?
First of all, I don't have a plan, and I am not asking for a change. You
should first check with other users what's the preferred way.
To answer your question: Suppose some things are best done
interactively. (I guess you agree, otherwise there wouldn't be much need
for a gui-gretl.) Then there are other things where automatization by
scripts is good, e.g. because gretl doesn't have the corresponding
built-in function. So I would like to freely move back and forth between
manipulating stuff via menus and doing something on the CLI. That's
currently not possible because of the mentioned separation.
That's all, really.
-sven