On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote: > Um, no, reversing the default is not good. We want gretl to halt on error > unless "catch" is used -- which is the current default. > > To explain just a little more, the reason I don't like the ability to turn > halt_on_error off is that it's likely to give rise to cascades of > (increasingly incomprehensible) errors. A script writer should figure out if > any commands might fail for good reason and, if so, use "catch" on them -- > and not just tell gretl to keep going regardless of how messed up things are.
Uhm, point taken. Let's do as you say. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------
