I am straining hard to think what subtleties might be hidden in the
question.
But here is my understanding:
A line is whatever is ended by an end-of-line, meaning by default
whatever combination of carriage return and line feed is native to the
operating system, and by extension ; whenever #delimit ; is in
operation.
Nick
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Sergiy Radyakin
I have a question regarding the use of comments in Stata programs.
The two possibilities to comment out a line of code are to put a "*"
or "//" in the beginning of a line.
The manual (e.g. online here: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?comments)
says:
" * indicates that the line is to be ignored."
and
"// indicates that the rest of the line is to be ignored."
Both definitions are using the concept of a "line". I would like to
double-check, what is really meant by "line" in this context?
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