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".
Allin Cottrell