st: Stata functions

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Apropos of the recent discussion of inlist, I have often wondered why Stata 
doesn't allow varlists in functions, but instead requires comma separated 
lists. For example,

missing(,a,b,c,d,...) is required. Why not a varlist? I can't quite see any 
difference. However, in terms of programming, a varlist is much easier.

reg y  a b c if !min(b_*)

is much easier than typing each of the 10 b_ variables which may be long 
and easy to misspell.

Fred



Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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