[Gretl-devel] bug which is new in 1.7.4

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> 
>>> This probably isn't your case, but I remember I ran into this 
>>> once, only to discover, after many swearwords, that I had and 
>>> "if" without an "endif" somewhere.
>> tiny script exposing the problem:
>>
>> <script>
>> nulldata 10
>> a = 3
>> loop 33
>>   if a>1
>>     print a
>> end loop
>> </script>
> 
> In CVS, we now have a guard against unmatched "if" for loops, 
> user-defined functions, and entire scripts.  Please report if 
> anything seems to be wrong with this.
> 
> We also try to ensure that the "if stack" gets destroyed on error.
> 

If it's doable for "if" blocks, why not do it for all types of blocks, 
like loop - end loop, function - end function, gmm - end gmm, mle - end 
mle, and so on?

thanks,
sven