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RE: st: Keywords in programming


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Keywords in programming
Date   Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:57:38 -0000

should, almost certainly, be understood
in context. It will be part of a preamble 
that parses what the user types, all 
preparatory to a -parse- which brought 
everything together. 

Here is an example of what we used to do 
("those were the days, my friend", etc.): 

    local varlist "req ex"
    local if "opt"
    local in "opt"
    parse "`*'"

In current Statas, this would be done 
this way: 

syntax varlist [if] [in] 

Thus, in short, 

local if "opt" 

is equivalent to part of a -syntax- command, 
but only as a part of a sequence of statements. 

Nick 
[email protected] 


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