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RE: st: References for `= foo'
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"Radwin, David" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: References for `= foo'
Date
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:10:29 -0400
Also, it's a specialized case of evaluation, described in:
Cox, N. J. (2008). Stata tip 70: Beware the evaluating equal sign. Stata Journal, 8(4), 586-587. http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0045
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Schumm
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:07 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: References for `= foo'
>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have frequently seen (and copied) macros of the type:
> >
> > `= foo'
> >
> > One such, in a post by Joseph Coveny on June 19:
> >
> > set seed `=date("2013-06-20", "YMD")'
> >
> >
> > Can anybody point out references to such " `= foo " usage in the
> Documentation or elsewhere? ( Yes, I've looked, but Adobe Reader's search
> apparently has trouble with "`").
>
>
> [P] macro, Macro expansion operators and function
>
>
> -- Phil
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