user defined functions?

[cap]

Greetings,

I hope this is not too elementary of a question ... is it possible to write functions in Eviews that directly return some output? For example, can I write some function and then use it on the right hand side of an assignment statement, like mynumber = product(2,3), and get mynumber=6.

I am aware of subroutines, but they seem to be lacking in this ability.

(I am using Eviews 6)


Thanks,
-cap

[EViews Glenn]

Unfortunately, no.

[cap]

Has there ever been any talk of putting this into a future Eviews release? It would be extremely useful.


Thanks,
-cap

[EViews Gareth]

There is talk, but it is exceedingly difficult to do properly where other EViews objects, such as equations and models, could understand the user-defined function. We're contemplating options for EV8 though.