1997 Stata user group meeting in London is the oldest on which
materials are available. Among the wishes and gumbles:
--- Check syntax before running file (lint for Stata)
--- Report where program was when it failed
(I interpret the last one as show the line number)
That was 12 years ago.
http://www.stata.com/meeting/3uk/wishes.html
2Roy: pass i and j to your program as parameters.
Best wishes, Sergiy Radyakin
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Roy Wada<[email protected]> wrote:
>> This feature would be very useful for me.
>>
>> Howie Lempel
>>
>> I strongly, strongly, strongly support this request.
>>
>> Fred Wolfe
>>
>>> I would like to have a tool (say with set debug on) that shows (without set
>>> trace on) after a command that ends in an error
>>>
>>> Wim van Putten
>
> Debugging doesn't really bother me, but I would like to see universal
> loop indicators accessible from inside the loops. In the following example,
> myprogram doesn't know anything about the loops outside it.
>
> for ... {
> for ... {
> myprogram ...
> }
> }
>
> You could manually pass that information to the program, but presumably
> Stata already knows about the loops, and that inforamtion could be made
> available to any embedded program that wishes to know (1) how far down it
> is being embedded, (2) what is the name of counter/variable that is
> used to operate the loops, and (3) what values are contained in those
> counters.
>
> Among other things this type of function could be useful for debugging.
> It would tell you where you are, instead having you go through a trace
> output.
>
> Something like this is already available for byable programs in the form
> of _byindex, _byvars, _byrc0, bylastcall( ), etc, so it's probably not
> too far fetched.
>
> Roy
>
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