Sorry, Ashim, but I really don't understand your comments here.
First off, local macros are useless unless used in some code. Whether
that use is interactive, via a do file, or via a program is up to you.
If you want to be absolutely sure that certain collaborators, and only
those collaborators, see that code, then you need to send it encrypted.
That would apply to a do file or a program, and does not _itself_ rule
out do files.
Second, saving macros in the data file runs into the same issues. You
would need to encrypt that too, as any Stata user with the same version
could in principle read your data file too.
In short, wanting absolute security seems to me orthogonal to all other
details here.
For myself, I always remember what Howard Aiken said. Don't worry about
people stealing your ideas; if they're any good, you will have to ram
them down their throats.
Nick
[email protected]
P.S. If you are developing proprietary code, why do you expect free
help? Shouldn't you offer to pay us?
Ashim Kapoor
Well in my opinion the do file won't do. Simply because the 1st half
of my code is proprietary, I dont wnat any1 to see it. I do wnat them
to USE the local macros / dataset at the end of the 1st half. Maybe I
am more clear now.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> A matrix could not be used for macros with string content. (Strictly,
> all macros are strings, but clearly some have numeric content.)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Philipp Rehm
>
> I think that's what do-files are for.
>
> Nevertheless: how about building up a matrix which contains the local
> macros you encounter, which you then save into a variable? You could
> then recover the local macros with -levelsof-, for example.
>
> But I guess a do-file is the more straightforward approach...
>
>
> Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>> I somehow feel that you can save local macros in a way other than
>> using -notes- can you ??
>>
>
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