Re: st: valid invalid syntax

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

How interesting.

In fact, the comma seems to toggle back and forth between options and 
pre-option stuff.  Check out, for example:

logit foreign mpg price weight , robust  , if rep78>2 , or , in 1/72 , 
score(myscore)

which gives the same results as

logit foreign mpg price weight in 1/72 if rep78>2 , robust or score(myscore)

Undocumented feature?  Bizarre bug?

--Nick Winter

At 02:08 PM 4/22/2004 +0200, you wrote:

> Hi listers
>
> marking biostat exam my students have used the following "invalid" stata
> syntax for egen, but with succes.
>  egen gr=cut(x) , at(.1,.3,.5,.8,1) ,if y==1
> wich give the same result as
>  egen gr=cut(x) if y==1 , at(.1,.3,.5,.8,1)
>
> Have any of you experinced other occations of violation of the
> commandname varlist [in if], options
> syntax
>
> should this be okay or should I send a bug rapport to stata?
>
> Best Lars
>
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