I have not used syntax much. When I write the syntax command,
syntax varlist(min=2 max=2 numeric) [if] [in] [, noconstant]
I find it parses
mycommand weight weight2 , constant
differently than
mycommand weight weight2, constant
The top parses `2' to weight2 and the bottom parses `2' to weight,  
(includes the comma). Use of tokenize varlist avoids this problem, but  
is it a long standing feature of syntax to require option commas to be  
separated by white space? I can't remember being careful about how I  
type that interactively.
Cheers,
-Dave
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