Re: [Gretl-users] bug? with string substitution
Am 18.12.2017 um 09:17 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> The second priority is then to future-proof function packages by
> ensuring that they use the currently recommended form -- and in that
> context, I agree, some "shell magic" would be helpful.
A proper implementation would have to use our internal tokenizer, but
for a rough check this bash fragment may come in useful (it only catches
"if"s a
Ahem, could it be you're talking about the == thing here? The current
(or future) problem was the 'sprintf' command.
What I'm saying is that the number of function packages that use the
command form of sprintf might have a bearing on the decision whether (or
when) to deprecate it. The transition from = to == was actually very
slow and relatively painful -- I'm not even sure it's finished already.
I wouldn't like to repeat that experience if it's not really necessary.
And/or several deprecations should be lumped together I guess.
cheers,
sven