Sorry about that, Daniel.
I had not encountered this problem before...
/Jesper
>
> I am not using it interactively. But it doesn't matter whether I go
>
> mata
> if (1==1) "Hello world"
> end
>
> Or
>
> mata: if (1==1) "Hello world"
>
> Both don't work and if I understand the documentation correctly, they
> should.
>
> I am using the if-function as part of a larger script that uses some
> matrices to store and manipulate results from a couple of regression
> models (actually, a lot, so no, I can't use the non-mata
> matrix commands
> for several reasons). I have to use the mata-if function, because I
> check a feature of a mata-matrix and then ask it to execute a
> mata-command on that matrix - but I reduced the if-command to
> the simple
> version that I have shown in the email because it is fairly fail-proof
> in terms of other errors in the coding.
>
> The solution you suggested (mata: if (1==1) {} "Hello world") doesn't
> really work. It does not really run the if check, so if you use
> mata: if (1==0) {} "Hello world"
> You still get a "Hello World" as output (and it shouldn't,
> because 1 is
> obviously not 0).
>
>
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