[Gretl-devel] Proposal for a syntax change

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

Hi all,

since release is near, I feel it may be a good time to propose a 
backward-incompatible change that IMHO sooner or later we'll have to make: 
originally, we had "|" and "&" for logical operations. Then, when matrices 
appeared, we used the same operators for concatenation (mostly, because 
that's what everybody else uses). At the same time, we also support "||" 
and "&&" for logical operators. This, I think, creates an ugly ambiguity 
which should be resolved by specialising "|"-"~" for concatenation and 
"||"-"&&" for logical operations.

Do you agree?


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

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti