[Gretl-users] indexes in loops

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza wrote:

> Looking at Jack's script gmmstart.inp, published recently in 
> this list (I attach the file) may be the solution is to write 
> a previous line "j = i+1" and use the index j (but I have no 
> very clear whether j is now an scalar or an integer as "i")
>
>> loop i=2..11 --quiet
>>   j = i - 1
>>    matrix tmp[,$i] = (X[,j] - X[,11]) .* elmrs
>>  end loop
>
> I suspect that "j = i -1" is an alias of "scalar j = i - 1",
> Do we have a command as "integer j = i - 1"?

At present, no.  But I think this should be introduced soon: the 
ability to define a variable as having integer type.  (Right now 
all scalars are floating-point numbers.)

Allin.