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Re: st: Comment oddity with #delimit ;
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Comment oddity with #delimit ;
Date
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:16:43 +0100
This kind of thing has been aired from time to time on Statalist.
Search the archives for e.g. "comment delimiter".
I think this is a bug for you in the sense that your intentions, clear
from the code, have been misunderstood by Stata. The flip answer is
"Don't do that then!" but StataCorp may have a better answer.
I almost never use #delimit ; except around long -graph- commands. I
find the combination of // and /// catches almost all needs of
commenting and of continuing long lines in do-files or programs.
Nick
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Brendan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Consecutive comments can cause a problem when using semi-colons to
> delimit:
>
> +- test.do -----------------------------------------------------------------
> #delimit ;
> di "test one";
>
> // Comment line one;
> // Comment line two;
>
> di "test two";
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Do-ing this yeilds the following:
>
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> . do test.do
>
> . #delimit ;
> delimiter now ;
> . di "test one";
> test one
>
> . // Comment line one;
>> // Comment line two;
> unrecognized command: / invalid command name
> r(199);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(199);
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Semi-colons at the end of comments have no effect.
> Dropping either of the comments resolves the problem.
> Reverting to -#delimit cr- resolves the problem.
> Using C-style comments (/* ... */) resolves the problem.
>
> This is Stata 11, under Linux.
>
> Am I missing something or is this a bug?
>
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