On Fri, 24 May 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I've come across a strange piece of code which goes more or less like this: > > <hansl> > open denmark > matrix M = zeros($nobs,2) > series M[1,] = ones(1,2) > print M > </hansl> > > Note the "series" specifier in the third line. I would have > expected an error there, but this works with the same result as if > "matrix" were given there. (Or nothing.) This is with gretl 2024b. > > So what's the point? I think a type mismatch error would be the > right thing for a statically typed language like hansl. It would indeed, and now that's the case in git. It was quite tricky to get right, since there are formulations (not this one, of course) that might look wrong but are quite acceptable [...]