Lars --
The double-comma form has been legal as long as I can remember, though I do
not believe it is documented in the current manuals. In fact, I believe you
can legally add yet another comma and include more options after that third
comma. This issue has been discussed on this list by StataCorp staff, but
not recently.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Korsholm" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: st: valid invalid syntax
> 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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