[Gretl-devel] work in progress

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Riccardo Jack Lucchetti wrote:

> From the user's perspective, genr is ok now, but if you look 
> at the source, everything is very complicated. One thing I'd 
> like to have is a clean mechanism for defining functions with 
> more than one argument. At present we have fracdiff, whose 
> code is quite messy, and pvalue, which also is treated as a 
> special case. It'd be very nice to have optional arguments, à 
> la R.

Yes, I agree that would be good.  Right now generate.c contains 
a whole patchwork of special cases, and not everything nests as 
it should.  I hope that with a more systematic treatment we can 
handle functions more elegantly and flexibly.

Allin.