[Gretl-devel] Backward compatibility

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

>> In CVS and Windows snapshot you can do the following (revised
>> version of Ignacio's sample script):
>>
>> <script>
>> function sillyfun (string foo, series x)
>>   series @foo_f1 = x+x(-1)+x(-2)+x(-3)
>>   series @foo_f2 = x+x(+1)
>>   list outlist = @foo_f1 @foo_f2
>>   return list outlist
>> end function
>>
>> open data9-9
>> string sname="nocars"
>> list alist = sillyfun(sname, nocars)
>> print alist
>> </script>
>>
>> Alternatively, you could give the string argument to sillyfun as a
>> quoted string literal:
>>
>> list alist = sillyfun("nocars", nocars)
>
> I just downloaded gretl from CVS and the script does not work (In Kubuntu
> Linux).

Strange. It works here. Have you started from scratch or just updated a 
previous installation? In the second case, make sure you re-run the usual 
sequence

./configure
make
make install (as root)

and check for any errors.

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
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