I don't particularly yearn for that, nor I do argue
against.
But what you can do now -- and indeed for some time past -- is
not far away:
foreach element of loc mylist {
tokenize `element'
args numeral letter roman
...
}
If there was a lot in the loop this would make
code clearer.
Nick
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Phil Schumm
> On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> > Also, you could -tokenize- inside the loop:
> >
> > foreach element of loc nylist {
> > tokenize `element'
> > ...
> > }
>
>
> Indeed, this would make for much cleaner code within the
> loop, albeit
> still a bit difficult to read (since one has to go back and forth
> between the positional macros and what they refer to). For this
> reason, I still think it would be nifty if you could write:
>
>
> loc mylist `" "1 a I" "2 b III" "3 c III" "'
> foreach numeral, letter, roman of loc mylist {
> ...
> }
>
>
> but, as I said, I haven't thought through the full implications of
> this, nor do I have any idea how difficult it would be to
> implement.
> I also have no idea whether it would offend StataCorp from an
> aesthetic perspective...
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