RE: st: Limit on number of macros

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

2,147,483,647 will seem less arbitrary when expressed as
2^31 - 1. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

William Gould, Stata
 
> Stata will allow you to continue creating macros as long as 
> it can find memory
> to store them or until there are 2,147,483,647 of them.
> 
> When we do not state a limit, the limit is usually that.

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