[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.03.2020 um 07:15 schrieb Artur Tarassow: Am 24.03.20 um 02:09 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: I'm thinking that an early 2020b release would be good, to address the macOS Catalina security issue (about which we'll probably hear more). If po

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Artur Tarassow
Am 24.03.20 um 08:29 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Am 24.03.2020 um 07:15 schrieb Artur Tarassow: Am 24.03.20 um 02:09 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: I'm thinking that an early 2020b release would be good, to address the macOS Catalina security issue (

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: I'm thinking that an early 2020b release would be good, to address the macOS Catalina security issue (about which we'll probably hear more). Oh, another thing: if we're releasing soon I'd like to

[Gretl-devel] Readable aliases true/false

2020-03-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, sorry, here is another one of those free-floating wishlist items: Some complex packages have functions with quite many arguments, among which often some boolean switches. The function calls would be easier to read if one could use some keywords for on-off/yes-no/true-false instead of the gener

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.03.2020 um 08:34 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: 3) overload the ls command with an --odbc option: What's the ls command in gretl? -sven ___ Gretl-devel mailing list -- gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-de

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 24.03.2020 um 08:34 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: 3) overload the ls command with an --odbc option: What's the ls command in gretl? Whoops, sorry: it's an alias for "varlist". --- Ric

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: Am 24.03.20 um 08:29 schrieb Sven Schreiber: funcerr() is very new, you were the only one using it in a package as Allin found out. I would be fine of getting rid of it ;-) I accept Artur's point about naming the putative new function, terminate(

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.03.20 um 13:58 schrieb Allin Cottrell: I accept Artur's point about naming the putative new function, terminate(condition, message) is fine by me. Here are some more variations on this theme, without strong preferences from my side: terminateif() errorif() errif() abortif() abort()

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: I'm thinking that an early 2020b release would be good, to address the macOS Catalina security issue (about which we'll probably hear more).

[Gretl-devel] Re: release? and funcerr() revisited

2020-03-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 24.03.20 um 13:58 schrieb Allin Cottrell: I accept Artur's point about naming the putative new function, terminate(condition, message) is fine by me. Here are some more variations on this theme, without strong preferences from my side: terminate