AW: [Gretl-devel] WG: debugger

[Klein, Christoph]

yes, I know the "set debug x" feature. 
I just wanted to mention it. Perhaps someone listening has to much spare time and is looking for new challenging tasks :)
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Von: gretl-devel-bounces at lists.wfu.edu [gretl-devel-bounces at lists.wfu.edu] im Auftrag von Allin Cottrell [cottrell at wfu.edu]
Gesendet: Samstag, 20. Juni 2009 01:58
An: Gretl development
Betreff: Re: [Gretl-devel] WG: debugger

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Klein, Christoph wrote:

> Thank you for the warm reception!

You're welcome.  No more than you deserve!

> If you would like to know if theres something that I'm missing
> when working with gretl, then I can tell one thing: IMHO gretl
> is lacking a script debugger.

> For my thesis I'm working on GARCH option pricing models. I
> estimate different GARCH models using autoregressive formulas
> and then calculate option prices with a monte carlo simulation.
> Nearly all of the code is written using gretl, just some parts
> that need to calculations with compex numbers are implemented in
> R. In R I have the simple but sufficient debug feature that
> allows to step through functions and look into variables during
> calculation. In gretl I can do the same only using print
> statements, which makes debugging quite hard.

Admittedly this is something we haven't thought about much at this
point.  To be sure, we don't have anything such as you describe
for R.  We do, however, have the ability to

  set debug 1

or

  set debug 2

with effects as described in the help entry for the "set" command.

Allin Cottrell


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