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.



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   Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
   Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

   Università Politecnica delle Marche
   (formerly known as Università di Ancona)

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