Re: [Gretl-users] isscalar
Am 09.11.2012 18:17, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
> I'm not saying I need it, but it isn't obvious to me why it is less
> useful in principle than for example 'isstring()'. Instead it seems to
> be a natural complement to the other 'is...()' functions, doesn't it?
Maybe I was too glib. But actually, it seems to me that all we
really need is isnull() --
[followed by more detail]
Hm, not sure, but what about the case of analyzing the components of
bundles in a script? Maybe the bundle itself is a function argument, and
then the function needs to check the sanity of the structure of the
bundle that was passed in?
-sven