[Gretl-devel] bug when using gmm

[Sven Schreiber]

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb:
> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> 

> 
>> Are there any other cases where a user-defined variable is implicitly 
>> altered by gretl?
> 
> Lots. For example,
> 
> scalar a = 0
> mle ...
>    params a
> end mle
> 
> Same goes for gmm and nls.

well of course, there it's very obviuos -- so I meant _except_ with 
'params' :-)

BTW, this got me thinking: in some sense it might be more consistent to 
use the accessor $coeff also for gmm, mle, nls, and so forth. But since 
I'm not in favor of breaking backwards-compatibility (as you know), I 
guess I'm not proposing it seriously.

> 
>> IMHO at least it should be stated explicitly in the manual -- but I 
>> confess I haven't checked and I can very well imagine that it is 
>> already mentioned there.
> 
> Thanks for the idea. I'd already planned to do some work on the manual 
> this weekend. I'll throw this in.

thanks for the work!

-sven