possible to improve Grads for some deficiencies?

[Pablo Romero]

I took a look at the grads source code, and from what I see/understand, commenting only works if the first character on a line is either '*' or '#', so attempting to comment anywhere else on a line won't work. I also tested this and confirmed that it doesnt work.

Unfortunately, this is hard-coded into the 'gs script' parsing code within the grads source code; it would need to be re-coded by COLA.

I would recommend adding it as a feature request within the tracker on the GRADS sourceforge site:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=821185&group_id=161773&func=browse

Pablo

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> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:48:10 -0600
> From: smcmillan at PLANALYTICS.COM
> Subject: Re: possible to improve Grads for some deficiencies?
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
>
> Slovoed,
> 1. Do you mean the expression
> "return" or an end-of-line return (as when pressing the Enter
> key)? If the former, "return" required at end of function,
> otherwise you should include a "return" (carriage return) after
> last line of script. However, I am referring to Windows versions--don't
> know about others.
> 2. The * (or #) is not needed
> in the first column for commenting. You can also place it at the
> end of a line, for example:
>
> prompt 'What is your name? '*
> Last name only
> pull myname
> prompt 'What is your age? '# Age
> in whole years only
> pull myage
>
> Stephen
>
>
> slovoed slovoed
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> 02/26/2009 04:09 AM
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> possible to improve Grads for some deficiencies?
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> hi,
>
> I have been using Grads for many years. As I know, there
> are some deficiencies in Grads I can not slove it since I have no knowledge
> about the source code of Grads.
>
> 1. on the last line of script, one "Return"
> must be added, otherwise it fail to run the last line.
>
> 2. * is used to comment some certain lines in script,
> but * must be placed in the first column, otherwide will report the error.
> It's not useful to let the script nice-looking and easy to read. Does
> it like matlab, * can be placed anywhere for commenting.
>
> The points above might be easily solved by code developer,
> aren't they?
>
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> slovoed
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