Re: st: mata stata() parameters

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> stata("local _AAA=month(d(`c(current_date)'))",1,1)
> mc=strtoreal(st_local("_AAA"))
>
> This code produces the result I want, e.g. mc becomes equal to 8.
> However, after compiling the procedure into an .mo file, I can see
> that the call is stored as:
>
> local _AAA=month(d(22 Aug 2007))
>
> note that 22 Aug 2007 is today's date. There seems to be no difference
> whether I specify no-macro-expansion parameter or not.
>
> Where is a mistake?

Sorry, I didn't tell you your mistake, though you've pretty much  
figured it out for yourself.  In Mata, macro expansion is performed  
at compile-time, not at run-time.  For more info, see


http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-08/msg00852.html

and

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-04/msg00836.html


-- Phil

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