I don't like marmite (don't mind it either). I kind of think of it as
English miso... hahaha.
About the "for" and "against" camps - I kind of sit on the fence
because although I almost always use -foreach- and -forval-, every
once in a while I'd slip in a -for- for one-liners. I believe I'm
very far from fully exploiting the potentials of -forval- and
-foreach- so that could explain my preference.
On 3/16/06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> As has been said, -for- divides the world (like
> Marmite, if you know what that is).
>
> The two camps are, naturally, "for" and "against".
>
> Once you have seen the light on -forvalues- and -foreach-,
> you never want to go back.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Ada Ma
>
> > I suppose you can have three globals and then have one loop to loop
> > through them? Some samples can be found in C Baum's "A little bit of
> > Stata programming goes a long way ..."
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/meeting/11uk/baum.pdf
> >
> > I quite like the -for- command as well, sometimes I only want to loop
> > one line of command and using commands like -forvalue- and -foreach-
> > gets a bit complicated. And speaking for myself, using -for- would
> > save me from making typos like using ) instead of }.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/16/06, Gawrich Stefan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I do a lot of routine or repetitive data analysis and use
> > loops and lists
> > > frequently (btw, thx to Nick Cox, his "How to fact lists
> > with fortitude"
> > > helped me a lot).
> > >
> > > I'm wondering why the "for"-command is officialy out of
> > date in Stata while
> > > one of it's best features - the use of parallel lists -
> > can't be done
> > > otherwise. Or am I missing something?
> > >
> > > One example: I routinely map ten different diseases with
> > tmap and save the
> > > maps as a graphic file.
> > >
> > > for var var1-var10 \ any "Disease1" "Disease2" [...] \ any
> > "Filename1"
> > > "Filename2" [...] : ///
> > > tmap choro X, id(county) map("county-Coordinates.dta")
> > title("Y") \ graph
> > > export "Z.png", replace
> > >
> > > In this example each graph is determined by something like
> > a 3-tuple of
> > > variable, title and saving-filename.
> > > This is just basic code, in real life the code blows up and
> > becomes hard to
> > > read, as we all know, "for" has some disadvantages.
> > > So if it can be done in a more structured manner, I would
> > like to know...
>
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