st: re: a graph named "new"

[Christopher Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Is this like "a boy named "Sue"?

Eva said
This is a very minor issue, but anyway: How come I cannot name a graph  
"new"? In Stata 9.2, or an up-to-date Stata 10.1, the following  
produces an error: sysuse auto scatter price mpg, name(new) The error  
message is "new invalid member variable identifier" r(198). This does  
not depend on the data in memory, or the graph command used. Note that  
"ne", "neww", "New" and other variations work just fine. I can create  
variables, programs, and locals with the name "new", just not graphs.  
I couldn't find anything in the archives, or the manuals, but maybe I  
overread something.

I imagine that -help class- will convince you that new is a reserved  
word in the class system (even if it is not explicitly declared as  
such). You can't define a class named 'new' either. Perhaps just  
localize the object to 'neu'? The class system sprech kein Deutsch.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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