Re: [Gretl-users] isscalar
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I've sometimes wondered if it would be worth trying to expose
some sort of
"enum" system in gretl -- e.g. in this context NONE = 0, SCALAR = 1, SERIES =
2 and so on. It would obviously be more intuitive to be able to do
if typeof(whatever) == SCALAR
where SCALAR codes for an integer. But it means "invading" the user's
available namespace, plus more internal string look-up, so maybe it's not
worth the trouble outside of a compiled language.
I agree, I'd keep the user's namespace as clean as possible.
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