Open alashworth opened 5 years ago
Comment by bob-carpenter
Saturday Mar 04, 2017 at 22:21 GMT
Thanks for submitting a pull request, but we don't want to either break backward compatibility or introduce multiple ways of expressing the same thing. Unless anyone on the dev team disagrees vehemently, I'm going to close this issue.
Comment by syclik
Saturday Mar 04, 2017 at 22:46 GMT
Bob, I whole-heartedly agree with you.
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Thanks for submitting a pull request, but we don't want to either break backward compatibility or introduce multiple ways of expressing the same thing. Unless anyone on the dev team disagrees vehemently, I'm going to close this issue.
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Summary:
Allow using abbreviated labels for variable bounds to declutter a Stan script.
Description:
Currently, parameter bounds can only be described by is full label, e.g.
The request is to allow abbreviated labels for
lower
andupper
. This helps to declutter your Stan script. E.g. the following would be valid code:as well as:
Current Version:
v2.14.0