RE: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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I cannot think of a good reason to put two lines in a -macro-, given alternatives highlighted by Phillippe et al..


HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Donnerstag, 12. August 2010 18:10
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?

I can't think of a good reason for saying that unless it's that people may get confused. Stata has no problems distinguishing a local macro and a command with the same name. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Martin Weiss

It is not a good idea to use an official command name for the -local-, anyway...

Maarten buis

--- On Thu, 12/8/10, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> Strange, I thought this would work:
> 
> ***************
>    sysuse auto
>    local test count ; list in 1 ;
>    #delimit ;
>    `test'
> ***************
> 
> but it doesn't produce so much as an error message. Why
> not?

That probably has to do with the way Stata parses a line.
My guess would be that the following is happening:
Stata collects a line till it sees a ; 
only after that does it start evaluating the locals
Since you did not put a ; after `test', Stata never
even started evaluating the local, and so never saw
the contents of `test', and thus did not produce an
error message.

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