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Re: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Double -for- loop on one line crashes Stata


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Double -for- loop on one line crashes Stata
Date   Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:38:53 +0100

At 19:58 15/10/02 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:

Well, we really need a Stata Corp input on this one.

Loosely, the more strain you put on the parser,
the greater the risk that Stata will misunderstand,
but that's just rephrasing my earlier comment
without adding any substance.

Stata sometimes to behave as if braces were another
kind of end-of-line delimiter, but not always.

Also, although the above works fine, I think you'll
see, if you look at documentation, that it is not encouraged
anywhere, even by example.
A possible counterexample to Nick's proposition can be found in the Stata 7 hardcopy manuals under -[P] if- (Page 121 of the Programming manual). This contains an in-line phrase

if age>21{summarize age}

(without even semicolons). However, in that context, it might be argued that the manual is not explicitly encouraging people to use this construct. (For what it's worth, this phrase executes without error in the -cancer- data shipped with official Stata.)

Roger


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