[Gretl-users] Fwd: List from string in a function

Re: List from string in a function I now see the problem I ran into is intrinsic to how Gretl functions work. The string substitution in the function below fails because the scope of the function does not let it see the series in the open workfile function matrix olslist1(string xstring) list xlist= @xstring #fails ols dy const xlist #ols dy const @xstring #also fails return $coeff end function I.e even explicit list definition in a function fails list xlist= dy Is there a work around that gives a function global type access to all series in an open workfile? I can see the potential danger here, but if possible in a future GRETL release, it would be nice to be able to read from inside a function any existing series (maybe with some type of write protection) without needing to pre-specify a list with all of the series the function 'might' use. In my 'use case' I am dynamically creating a set of lagged explanatory variables for a model, with an additional complication of not setting the exact lag length for each variable at the start.