On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
Maybe I misuderstand the notion of a "thread" but it still carried
my original subject line. Indeed, when I click the
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-07/msg01070.html; via
the "thread next" button, it takes me all the way through your and
Nick's and Richard's and my replies...
I apologize -- I should have been clearer. What Rich started was
technically a subthread. The threading is based on the "In-Reply-To"
and "References" headers, not the subject header; only in the case of
mailers that don't do proper threading (or MTAs that strip these
headers) is the subject heading used instead. The resulting structure
is reflected on the page I referenced
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-07/).
Now, I suppose you could argue that the subthread Rich started (and
that Nick and I responded to) really didn't belong under the original
thread (since writing help files has little to do with programming
dialog boxes), and on some lists, people can get pretty annoyed if you
hijack a thread. Whether that's what happened here or not, there are
certainly much worse examples.
All I was objecting to was the fact that you quoted my message, and
then wrote "We do not like the way we have to write help files, LET
ALONE dialog boxes." I just wanted to clarify that that is not my
sentiment. That's all.
smcl is indeed a useful language, though. In Chicago, M. Buis built
his presentation around smcl files which I found really neat...
Indeed. It is well-suited to giving tutorials in Stata, which is
essentially what Maarten was doing.
-- Phil
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