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RE: st: RE: what is c_local?


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: what is c_local?
Date   Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:51:24 -0000

To link up comments: my examples were
simple examples manufactured on the fly
to show the syntax. They were not Good Style (or Gould
Style, same thing in Stataland). Forget the
syntax: the point of -c_local- is to assist in
doing something in a corner, given arguments,
and sending back the result.

Nick
[email protected]

William Gould,

> Kardos L�szl� <[email protected]> asked, "What is
> c_local?", Nick Cox
> <[email protected]> replied in great, descriptive
> detail, and Allan Reese
> <[email protected]> then wrote,
>
> > As described, it looks not only dangerous but pointless [...]
>
> The point of c_local is to be a tool for developing
> programming-language
> statements.  For instance, imagine I wanted to create a new
> command,
>
>        bill_gould x : ...
>
> to be used in other programs.  The point of the new
> -bill_gould- command is to
> assign something to the local macro x.  Inside
> bill_gould.ado, I would code
> the line
>
>        c_local `1' ...
>
> Thus assigning back to the local macro in the caller's space.

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