I have opened a Gitlab issue on this topic: https://git.dynare.org/Dynare/dynare/issues/1656

Let's continue the discussion there.

Le vendredi 13 septembre 2019 à 09:49 +0200, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
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.

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