[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&gt; 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.