On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 5:48 PM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: > > Hello, > > the help text for the (relatively recent) typename() function says: "If > the argument does not identify an object the string null is returned." - > But I'm actually getting an error instead of a string output, like with > all other functions (apart from exists()). Is the help text outdated or > the implementation buggy? Or --as always-- am I missing something? You're not missing anything: both typeof() and typename() are failing when given a string that's not the name of anything known to gretl [...]