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Re: st: Strange behaviour with passing parameters to a Stata program


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Strange behaviour with passing parameters to a Stata program
Date   Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:03:07 -0500

At 11:44 PM 7/12/2008, Salah Mahmud wrote:
Stata completely ignores the notab parameter when it is passed to the
program below.
On tracing, notab is always =="" no matter what. Change the parameter
name in the syntax statement to anything else and it works as
expected. Anybody knows what is going on?

I'm running Stata MP v10  born 27 May 2008
I've always considered that an odd and confusing feature of Stata syntax. See -help syntax- and search for the text "Warning: be careful if the first two letters of the option's name are no". Read that and the next section entitled "option_descriptor optionally_off".


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