[Gretl-users] end something -- blank or not?

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> I'm confused by the various 'end' statements, for example:
> 
> endloop
> endif
> 
> but
> 
> end function
> end nls
> end gmm

end <whatever> (with a space) should always work, including for 
"if" and "loop".  We don't want to have specific "endfoo" commands 
for all constructs that have to be ended.  "endif" and "endloop" 
are there for historical reasons, but I think this special 
treatment can be rationalized -- on the grounds that "if" and 
"loop" are generic syntactical elements.

Allin.