Re: [DynareDev] breaking changes for stoch_simul and discretionary policy

Hi Michel,

Le vendredi 13 septembre 2019 à 08:21 +0200, Michel Juillard a écrit :

5. to have a compatibility function 4.6_4.5()that convert back the

new cellarrays to character arrays

Note that the usefulness of such a compatibility layer would be at best very limited.

Basically the M_.endo_names and friends are now cell arrays, while they used to be character arrays. So, for example, people who access that structure from a steady state file will have to update that file, one way or another. At best, a compatibility layer can facilitate that updating; but even that is not obvious, because that layer can’t just convert back the global M_.endo_names to a character array without breaking everything else.