Well, it seems from -help forvalues- that forvalues does not accept
expressions, only numbers. A local macro will work because it will be
transparently expanded into a number and so, for all purposes, it is a
number. On the other hand, a scalar would need to be evaluated and
therefore counts as an expression. I'm not sure why they made this
restriction..
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:27 PM
Subject: st: scalars in loops
> Can someone please explain to me why one cannot use scalars to define the
> upper bound in a range of a forvalues loop. A forvalues loop with a local
> works, a while loop with a scalar works, a while loop with a local works,
> but not a forvalues loop with a scalar. There seems to be nothing in the
> programming manual about this issue.
>
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> DVM
>
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