Good point. Please consider
program mysave
version 8
syntax [anything(name=filename)] [, * ]
qui {
if `"`filename'"' == "" {
local filename `"`c(filename)'"'
save `filename' `0'
}
else save `0'
}
display as text `"file {stata use `filename':`filename'} saved"'
end
I am not sure I would ever want this myself. No matter.
Nick
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Bill Rising
> On 5/13/2004 16:54, Nick Cox wrote
>
> >Do you mean
> >
> >program mysave
> > version 8
> > syntax anything(name=filename) [, * ]
> > qui save `0'
> > display as text `"file {stata use `filename':`filename'} saved"'
> >end
> >
> >?
>
> Yes, a good suggestion by Nick. Using
>
> mysave, replace
>
> would fail, though. Of course, this, too, could be worked around, by
> making the filename optional and then checking for errors and
> the like.
>
> I was actually suggesting it as a real built-in change,
> because it seemed
> like a good extension of smcl. If it became part of the
> internals for any
> kind of saving, it could also then be implemented for *every* save
> operation, such as
> -graph ..., saving()-
>
> This would make smcl files even more useful.
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