st: obtaining the value of c(byteorder) in Mata

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here, but my  
understanding was that values of c() scalars were to be referenced in  
Mata using st_numscalar() and st_strscalar().  Yet while this appears  
to work for numeric scalars, it doesn't seem to work for string scalars:


. mata: st_numscalar("c(SE)")
  1

. mata: st_strscalar("c(byteorder)")

. di c(byteorder)
hilo


Could someone point out what I'm doing wrong?


-- Phil

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