I too would encourage development of debugging tools for Stata and Mata.
Trace is a very blunt weapon; I suspect I'm under-using tracedepth. I
usually resort to the ancient technique of inserting output commands as
checkpoints. That's - di - in Stata and - printf - in Mata.
Allan
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