Re: st: undocumented command *

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

That was the original post by Sergiy:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-08/msg00519.html

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eva Poen" <eva.poen@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: st: undocumented command *



> Arrgghh, of course. Maybe I should get some sleep.
>
> I find -help undocumented- contradictory... But useful, thanks for the 
> pointer.
> Eva
>
>
> 2008/9/26 Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>:
>
> > this is a comment; see -help comment-
> >
> > you might also want to see -help undocumented-
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Eva Poen wrote:
> > > Today I stumbled upon this neat little command -*-, whose only purpose
> > > in life seems to be to do nothing at all, and swallow everything
> > > behind it:
> > >
> > > * blah blubb this does not make any sense but Stata doesn't complain,
> > > surprisingly
> > >
> > > (Try typing this in Stata.) I found it while implementing some
> > > entertaining dots for my exact unconditional test program, in the
> > > style of -simulate- etc. I examined simulate.ado, and there it was.
> > > -which *- shows that it officially doesn't exist.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there are more of these "hidden gems", which might
> > > be useful in programming, but are not only undocumented but also
> > > invisible for -which-. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Eva
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