Hendri Adriaens <[email protected]>:
Kvetching about Stata's inability to detect and analyze your mistakes
is an unproductive, or even counterproductive, use of Statalist (you
got an answer to your initial question within 5 hours; casting
yourself as a complainer may reduce Statalist's response time). You
don't seem to take my point about there being an arbitrary line
between intelligent error trapping and bloated internal code that
Stata draws in one place, and various others might draw lower or
higher.
That said, I agree that there is an inconsistency in handling code
following an open brace--try out this code:
if 1==1 { di "ok" }
di "not ok"
}
if 1==0 di "not"
else { di "else" }
foreach v of varlist _all { d `v'
to see what I mean. Part of the issue no doubt is that -if- has an
immediate form, e.g.
if 1==1 di "ok"
but since -else- can report the same error as -foreach-, I think -if-
could probably be made to do the same.
On 7/8/07, Hendri Adriaens <[email protected]> wrote:
It is obvious that if -{- has as syntax rule to ignore following material,
it should check for following material and produce a warning, or better, an
error if material is found. Why do you have syntax rules if you don't check
them and just run along until the whole thing breaks down completely to
produce a totally irrelevant error message by that time?
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