Man Jia wrote:
As to long lines in do-files, I know I can use #delimit ; to change the
end-of-line delimiter to ';'. Or I can use /// or /**/comment indicator.
So, I was wondering if there's any advantage of using #delimit ;
instead of /// or /**/. I'm thinking the first method means you have
to type ; at the end of each line,while if I use the second way I need
to type /// or /**/ only when there are long lines. But I do have seen
a lot of people prefer #delimit ;. Is there any reason for this?
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I don't use it regularly, but it does come in handy with multiline Stata
graphing commands as Roger mentions. When using -odbc-, it allows for
conventional formating of long SQL statements, which makes them more
readable, too.
Joseph Coveney
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