[Gretl-devel] scripting-related

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> I just experienced a strange bug that disappeared when I changed all
> lines containing just the name of a matrix, say beta_star (to print it,
> like on p.70 of the manual), to an explicit 'print beta_star' line.
> Before the change, gretl threw an error like "command 'beta_sta' not
> known" (note the 8-char truncation).
>
> What was especially strange was that the line 'beta_star' was coming
> after an if-check that in this particular case was FALSE, and so the
> syntax of the line should have been completely irrelevant.

Can you tell me what you get from this script:

nulldata 10
matrix long_mat_name = I(3)
if 0
    long_mat_name
else
    print "no long_mat_name"
end if
long_mat_name

Here it works OK.  That is, the output is

Generated matrix long_mat_name
no long_mat_name
? long_mat_name
long_mat_name

       1.0000       0.0000       0.0000
       0.0000       1.0000       0.0000
       0.0000       0.0000       1.0000

If it doesn't work for you, let me know; and if it does work, can 
you see what the relevant difference is between this case and the 
one you're describing?

> -- BTW, another unrelated thing: I still see the following in the first
> line of a newly fired up gretl-console:
>
> gretl-Konsole: geben Sie 'help' für eine Liste von Befehlen ein
> ?help
> Befehl 'elp' unbekannt

I have now fixed de.po in CVS.

> And while I'm at it, during function-debugging I often have to close and
> restart gretl because it starts reporting nonsense errors (that go away
> just by re-loading everything) after the first function error has
> occurred. I know that's a pretty vague bug report, but it seems that
> gretl may need to clean up its internals a little more after it
> encountered a function error...

OK, thanks for the tip, I'll try some experiments.

> Anyway, I don't think these things should hold up a new release. Are
> there still any other open issues? (Oh, apart from the shell-command
> synchronicity thing on Windows... I will test that eventually.)

I tested that today and it worked OK for me on XP.

Allin.