[Gretl-users] little bug with dire consequences (winsnapshot)

[Sven Schreiber]

Am 12.02.2008 10:58, nadaud at centre-cired.fr schrieb:
> Dear listers, greetings from Nogent-sur-Marne (~ Paris) !
> 
> I noticed yesterday a seemingly innocuous bug that crashes gretl.
> 
> Editing my scripts, I mistakenly typed :
> 
> matrix W = {x~y~z}
> 
> where x, y and z are series name. I excuted the code on just that line: 
> GRETL crashes.
> It seems that it should say something like " , or ; expected but ~ found 
> instead" rather than crash.
> 
> It took me some time to figure that out because initially I throught the 
> problem I reported lately was poping up again. Fortunately, this is not 
> the case, but this minor bug has real serious consequences so that I 
> guess it is worth reporting it.
> 
> The bug is affecting the windows snapshot i downloaded last week (friday 
> 8-2-08).
> 

On yesterday's cvs I get an informative error message, so I think you 
became a victim of the temporary genr breakage (devel version only) that 
Allin has fixed in the meantime. A newer win snapshot should solve this 
(don't know if it's already available).

cheers,
sven