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st: RE: AW: RE: RE: variable labels and reshape--reinserting en masse
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: AW: RE: RE: variable labels and reshape--reinserting en masse
Date
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:20:29 +0100
I guess that is never going to happen.
I don't know if you were using Stata around 2000, but no end of messes
followed people's misunderstanding of how local macros worked with
-for-.
One-line loops and macros really don't mix in the way that many users
would want because local macros are necessarily interpreted before
execution. My FAQ explains in more detail:
Stata 7: Why do I get puzzling results with the for command and local or
global macros?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/macros.html
Nick
[email protected]
[email protected]
I personal think that the idea of one-liner-loops including parallel
lists is still a good one.
A successor that overcomes some of the limitations discussed be???e and
uses locals instead of capital letters
would be a nice addition to the Stata toolbox.
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