[Gretl-devel] really distinguish commands from mere expressions

Hello all, here's a relatively radical suggestion for gretl 2.0, namely to properly distinguish statements (=commands) from mere expressions. What do I mean: Right now, the following <script> matrix whatever = zeros(2,2) whatever </script> prints the matrix called 'whatever'. What bugs me is the line with just the matrix name, why should that print anything at all, it's not a print command! It seems that right now for most objects it doesn't make much of a difference whether you write 'print myobject' or just 'myobject', with the important (unique?) exception of list objects. (Reminder for non-Allin readers: 'print mylist' prints the contained values of the member series, whereas 'mylist' prints the *names* of the member series.) So to get the member names for list objects I would suggest to replace the syntax 'mylist' with: 'print mylist --membernames' or somesuch. I'm sure no everybody will like it at first sight, but once you start thinking about it, isn't it compelling... ;-) thanks, sven