-index()-, now -strpos()-, is a function,
not a command.
The drive as I understand it is that string
functions should share very similar names,
beginning with -str-; and also that Stata
function names and Mata function names
be as close as possible.
Nick
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roy wada
> I always thought -index- sounded much better than -strpos-.
> For some reason the newer commands just don't sound as
> good as the older one. Weren't there some marketing scinence
> for choosing the sexiest, brawnest names for everything?
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