On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm thinking that I'd like to get rid of option to do > > set halt_on_error off > > in gretl. But here's an opportunity to object if you are so > moved.
[...] > For (minimal) backward compatibility we could make it so that > issuing the command "set halt_on_error off" does not itself > provoke an error, but just prints something like "Warning: > obsolete 'set' argument ignored". We could opt for a more gradual course of action: * first, we reverse the default option to 'off' and we issue a warning about "halt_on_error" being a deprecated setting whenever appropriate * in a few months, we scrap it. Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------
