Re: st: RE: RE: RE: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in Stata 10?

["Michael I. Lichter" <mlichter@buffalo.edu>]

Martin,

Thanks for the  reference to  [U] 18.3.4.

Also, you asked:
> BTW, where is the supposed place where r-results are treated like -local-
> -macro-s?
My answer is: (a) when r-results are declared as local macros, before 
they are returned, and (b) when r-results are dereferenced as if they 
were local macros; e.g., in

local x "`r(varlist)'"

I understand that single quotes are not simply local macro dereference 
operators, but it certainly looks like that's their function in the 
command line. Other than local macro, what can you dereference in this way?

Michael
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