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Re: st: Re: Loop syntax


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: Loop syntax
Date   Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:47:09 +0000 (GMT)

Rereading my answer I think it may be misunderstood as blaming you for
not looking at something obvious (like use -findit-). This is not the
case, I was trying to give the answer and give an extra tip at the same
time. These -egen- functions are full of neat tricks, so if you want to
do something that is close to what is already implemented in an -egen-
function, than looking at that function might yield some useful tricks.

-- Maarten

--- Johannes Geyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks! Haven't thought about that.
> 
> Johannes
> 
> 
> You can find that out by yourself if you knew that functions in egen
> are stored in _g<functionname>.ado . So, if you type:
> 
> viewsource _gtotal.ado
> 
> and 
> 
> viewsource _gsum.ado
> 
> You can see that -sum()- calls -total()-, leading to unnecesary
> overhead, otherwise the two are the same. 
> 
> *
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> 


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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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