John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to programatically obtain a list of function names
> (as defined in src/language/expressions) ? Some of the GUI dialog
> boxes require such a list.
There's never been a reason to export one from the expression
parser before, so although there's a list it's not necessarily in
the form you want. See src/language/expressions/parse.inc in the
build directory (it's a generated file).
Quite possibly we want to generate a separate list for use by the
GUI dialogs and export that list.
Here are some considerations:
* Do you want just function names, or do you want
argument types along with them? They're about equally
easy to supply, as you can see from the current array.
* Do you want to include unimplemented functions? PSPP
extension functions?
* Some functions are "overloaded" in that they have
multiple versions with the same name but different
types or numbers of arguments; also, some functions are
varargs.
* Some functions take a optional "minimum non-missing
arguments" argument, e.g. MAX.3(a,b,c) to only give a
non-missing result if all of a, b, and c are
non-missing.
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"It's like herding cats, only most of the engineers are already
sick of laser pointers."
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