st: testing syntax on no observations

[evan roberts <eroberts@hist.umn.edu>]

Is there a way to run do files (or ado files) on no observations to 
test that there are no typographical errors that would cause the 
program to stop?

People familiar with SAS will recognize this as analogous to being 
able to set OPTION OBS = 0 at the beginning of a file to test the 
syntax. The program will note that there are no observations, but 
only actually report errors that would cause a submission with data 
to fail (e.g; mis-named macros, loops that aren't closed etc.)

Thanks for any and all suggestions
Evan Roberts
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Evan Roberts
Minnesota Population Center and Department of History
University of Minnesota
eroberts@pop.umn.edu
http://www.pop.umn.edu/~eroberts
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