Re: st: make syntax options optional

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Tashi wrote:

> 
> . file, doc_id(7) firm_id(6429)
> 
> invalid syntax
> 
> I searched for archive and found out that we need to give a default value for optional options like following 
> 
> syntax, doc_id(int) [firm_id(int 5)]
> 
> I am not sure if I understood this. Does this not fix firm_id=5? In my case, firm_id will vary. Any idea or hint will be highly appreciated.

Thou shalt not take Stata's command names as thine own.

If you had bothered to type -help file- you would understand that your version of -file- will never be executed by Stata, as -file- is a built-in command. You could tweak Stata's directories (a very bad idea!) to occlude a command implemented as an ado-file, but a built-in command is just that.

Kit

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