I was looking at some code that people (Sven, Oleh, myself among others) have written for function packages and I thought that the fact that we don't have named arguments for functions like R and Python have is sometimes a little inconvenient. So I thought one could pass a string argument to a function with options of the kind "a = _something_", where _something_ is a scalar or a string, or better still, a sequence of these statements, separated by semicolons. The results would be collected in a bundle. I'm attaching a simple inp file which should exemplify what I have in mind. If we decide this is worthwhile having, it could be put into the extra package or perhaps into libgretl. Comments welcome. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------