Nick Cox
> Within a loop controlled by -forvalues- or -foreach- (or
> indeed -while-)
>
> tempname mymat
>
> always generates a _new_ tempname, even if
> `mymat' already exists. This is
> not, to me, intuitive, but it's what
> happens.
Strictly, this is true irrespective
of whether you are inside a loop
or not. In practice, it seems most
useful within some loop.
Nick
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