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st: RE: valid invalid syntax


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: valid invalid syntax
Date   Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:15:47 +0100

This is perfectly legal. See [U] 14.1.7 (p.97
for version 8 manuals). 

I wouldn't recommend it because I think 
it makes logs more difficult to read and 
programs more difficult to debug, but
that's a different matter. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Lars Korsholm
 
> marking biostat exam my students have used the following 
> "invalid" stata
> syntax for egen, but with succes.
>  egen gr=cut(x) , at(.1,.3,.5,.8,1) ,if y==1
> wich give the same result as
>  egen gr=cut(x) if y==1 , at(.1,.3,.5,.8,1)
> 
> Have any of you experinced other occations of violation of the
> commandname varlist [in if], options
> syntax
> 
> should this be okay or should I send a bug rapport to stata?

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