On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 12:39 PM Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 May 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > > I've come across a strange piece of code which goes more or less like this: > > > > <hansl> > > open denmark > > matrix M = zeros($nobs,2) > > series M[1,] = ones(1,2) > > print M > > </hansl> > > > > Note the "series" specifier in the third line. I would have > > expected an error there, but this works with the same result as if > > "matrix" were given there. (Or nothing.) This is with gretl 2024b. > > > > So what's the point? I think a type mismatch error would be the > > right thing for a statically typed language like hansl. > > It would indeed, and now that's the case in git. It was quite tricky > to get right, since there are formulations (not this one, of course) > that might look wrong but are quite acceptable [...]
To be more explicit: in a statement like series LHS = RHS LHS doesn't have to be a plain identifier; it can be a sub-object specification. But my fix is based on the assumption that only two gretl types can have a series as a sub-object, namely lists and bundles. Trying to specify a sub-object of any other object type as a series should provoke an "incompatible types" error. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list -- gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-devel-le...@gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-devel.gretlml.univpm.it/
