Re: [Gretl-users] binomial pvalue-function broken?

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Yes indeed: Not using the local decimal separator > (Preferences-General, uncheck checkbox, and restart) solves all my > reported problems. (after replacing commas with periods where > necessary, of course) > > So that's a workaround, and not too bad. In the medium term it > would be good if gretl could use an argument separator which is > not used as a decimal separator somewhere in the world > (semicolon?). If that's feasible while maintaining some backward > compatibility, I don't know. Thanks for tracking down the problem. I'll see if I can come up with something to solve this. Here's an initial thought. Right now, all the spaces are squeezed out of "genr" formulas in an early stage of processing, because white space carries no meaning in that context. What if we made spaces following commas significant, when the decimal separator is a comma? That is, in such locales you could write, e.g., "(1,5, 2,3)" and have it read as "one-point-five, two-point-three".