Curiously, describe.ado takes -anything- in its -syntax- statement. If you
copy it to your very own describe2.ado in your personal directory and
restate that as -anything(everything)- then you can pass it "in*" and it
works as expected. I think that could be called a bug. Whether minor or not,
I do not want to decide... -help describe- indicates that it takes a
-varlist- so why would one want -anything- and not -varlist- in the -syntax-
statement?
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: minor bug in -describe-?
-in- is a reserved word in Stata, but it's also a very
common prefix for variable names. So I often run into
this:
. d in*
varlist not allowed
r(101);
Obviously, -describe- takes a varlist, but it won't take
a varlist that looks like a reserved word. A bug, right?
Or is there a reason for this?
thanks,
Jeph
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