Edwin Leuven
>
> > That is indeed a problem if you want to -list-
> > 333,828 observations.
>
> It has never been a problem, so don't ridicule my point
>
> Obviously I just want to look at my data, but I don't want
> to type l in 1/100
> or something like this
>
> There is no reason for the speed of list to depend on the
> size of my data
>
> If I type l, stata should just start spitting out the data
>
> This is what stata 7 did, and this is what stata 8 should do
>
> It's just a buggy implementation of list afaic
Setting aside my (failed) attempt at humour:
-list- has to know about all the data it is listing
before it can decide on format. It cannot _not_ start
emitting as soon it goes through the data. That is
the price to be paid for some features.
Nick
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