Sergiy--
This is such a longstanding property of the -set- command, probably
most Stata users have internalized the behavior, but I suppose it
should be documented in the help file for -set-. Note it applies
equally to set memory, set tracedepth, etc.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Scott Merryman <[email protected]> wrote:
> This works:
> . set obs `=1e+04'
> obs was 0, now 10000
>
> I suppose the 1e+04 has to be evaluated first.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> how to explain this?
>>
>> version 10.1
>> . display 1e+04
>> 10000
>> . capture confirm number 1e+04
>> . display _rc
>> 0
>> capture assert mod(1e+04,1)==0
>> . display _rc
>> 0
>> . clear
>> . set obs 10000
>> obs was 0, now 10000
>> . set obs 1e+04
>> '1e+04' found where integer expected
>> r(198);
>>
>> So what is an integer then? (or what is 1e+04 if not an integer?)
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