Re: st: Strange behaviour with passing parameters to a Stata program

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:44 PM 7/12/2008, Salah Mahmud wrote:
> Stata completely ignores the notab parameter when it is passed to the
> program below.
> On tracing, notab is always =="" no matter what. Change the parameter
> name in the syntax statement to anything else and it works as
> expected. Anybody knows what is going on?
>
> I'm running Stata MP v10  born 27 May 2008
I've always considered that an odd and confusing feature of Stata 
syntax.  See -help syntax- and search for the text "Warning:  be 
careful if the first two letters of the option's name are no".  Read 
that and the next section entitled "option_descriptor optionally_off".


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