Nick, thank you for your explanation.
Friedrich
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is indeed still legal Stata. When a macro
> acquires contents by copying, then the syntax is
>
> local <macname> <contents>
>
> so that whatever follows the macro name becomes
> the contents.
>
> [snip]
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