Dear all, I have just deleted a package I created for testing. However, the main (public) function contained in the package seems to still exist, and gretl prevents me from creating a new one with the same name. I have even uninstalled gretl and installed the latest version, but the function still exists even though the package no longer appears in the package list. How can I eradicate it permanently?

On 10/06/25 12:58, Cottrell, Allin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM Paolo Chirico > <paolo.chirico(a)uniupo.it&gt; wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> I have just deleted a package I created for testing. However, the main >> (public) function contained in the package seems to still exist, and >> gretl prevents me from creating a new one with the same name. >> I have even uninstalled gretl and installed the latest version, but the >> function still exists even though the package no longer appears in the >> package list. >> How can I eradicate it permanently? > > Paolo, what's the name of this function? Are you sure it's not built-in? > > For an ordinary user-defined function you can do > > function funcname delete Paolo, are you saving to a session file? Functions that were defined at the time of saving are restored when the session file is re-opened. Could that be the case?

> > Paolo, are you saving to a session file? Functions that were defined > at the time of saving are restored when the session file is re-opened. > > Could that be the case? That's a very clever and plausible hypothesis, I wasn't really aware of this behavior. Let's see if Paolo confirms this. Apart from that, after opening the session file, one could perhaps do "clear --functions".

Am 12.06.2025 um 12:26 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On 12/06/25 11:45, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> >>> Paolo, are you saving to a session file? Functions that were >>> defined at the time of saving are restored when the session file is >>> re-opened. >>> >>> Could that be the case? >> >> That's a very clever and plausible hypothesis, I wasn't really aware >> of this behavior. Let's see if Paolo confirms this. >> >> Apart from that, after opening the session file, one could perhaps >> do "clear --functions". > > Alternatively, we could warn the user with a GUI element containing a > message like "WARNING: the session file you're opening contains one > or more used-defined functions. Restoring them may not be what you > want. Do you want to restore the user-defined functions?" and a > Yes/No button. > > It may be a little annoying, though. I think that would be over-engineering, actually. However, I'm noting that in section 3.4 of the guide ("The Session concept") the behavior with respect to functions isn't mentioned, maybe it should be. Also, Paolo's original problem was that his new function definitions were rejected because of the existing ones. Perhaps the associated warning message could contain a hint about how to unload/delete the existing function, if that's what's wanted.

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