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From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | st: RE: RE: problem with _request() |
Date | Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:54:06 -0000 |
examples. The underlying code is very old in Stata terms and the documentation terminology is phrased in terms that go back to Stata 2 or so. Nowadays global and local macros are talked about as if they were disjoint. The examples make evident the original and still valid story that local macros are, as it were, temporary global macros. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Nick Cox Not well explained, but it defines a global not a local: $macname not `macname' Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Michael Norman Mitchell In a recent post, Carl had troubles using "display _request()". I have need for this and am also having troubles with this. I have a simple do-file named test.do ---- test.do ---- display "What is your name?" _request(yourname) display "`yourname'" ---- test.do ---- When I run this, I expect it to display my name back. But this is what I get... . do test.do . display "What is your name?" _request(yourname) What is your name?. Michael . display "`yourname'" . end of do-file Am I using this incorrectly? Can anyone else confirm this as a problem? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/