re: Re: st: RE: if, in using issues with ado files: syntax bug?

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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Kevin said

It still feels like unexpected and illogical behavior to me. The syntax permits one to combine "if" and "using", or "in" and "using".  Given the current syntax-checker  behavior, I cannot think of *any* circumstances where it in fact makes sense to write a command with both "if" and "using", or both "in" and "using". So why permit it? Same deal with combining a varlist with "using". 

Counterexample:

prog ifusing
	version 12
	syntax varlist using/ [if]
	marksample touse
	di "`using'"
	outsheet `varlist' using `using' if `touse'
end

sysuse auto,clear
ifusing price mpg weight using junk.csv if foreign

Kit

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