[Gretl-devel] scripting-related

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:

> 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.  

Same for me.

> 
> 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?

Not yet, it's not obvious. But the bug is not severe, I guess that
"print m" is better style than just "m" anyway, and it seems a valid
workaround.

> 
>> -- 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.

Sorry, I didn't know that it's a German-only issue.

> 
>> 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.
> 

Great!

one more thing :-) -- could it be that the 'run' command is echoed even
with echo off?

-Sven