RE: st: passing a function name as an argument to another function

[Zurab Sajaia <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

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But you are explicitly referring to the name of the function - &x2() - which I'm trying to avoid. 
 
Say, I have a list of function names in a string matrix:
funcs = "func1()" \ "func2()" \ "func3()"
 
and want to go through the list and execute each:
for(i=1; i<=length(funcs); i++) {
  ...call funcs[i] somehow...
}
 

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> From: kit.baum@bc.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:51:45 -0400
> Subject: re:RE: st: passing a function name as an argument to another function
>
> <>
> This will definitely work but it means that I'm calling stata routine from mata (my caller procedure is in mata) that does nothing other that passing arguments back to a mata function...not the most beautiful solution I guess but whatever works :)
>
>
> No need--can be done entirely within Mata. See {m-2] ftof.
>
> clear all
> mata:
> real function x2(real scalar x)
> {
> return(x^2)
> }
>
> void function test(
> pointer(real scalar function) scalar f,
> real scalar x)
> {
> xx = (*f)(x)
> xx
> }
>
> test(&x2(), 4)
>
> end
>
>
>
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