st: tempvar in debugging

[Wincent <ronggui.huang@gmail.com>]

Dear all, here is the situation I ran into:

***  first case
capture program drop test
program define test
tempvar x
matrix `x'=(1,2\3,4)
pause examine matrix `x'
end

pause on
test
pause:  examine matrix __000000
-> . matrix dir
     __000000[2,2]
-> . matrix list `x'
matrix name required
r(100);
-> . matrix list __000000
__000000[2,2]
    c1  c2
r1   1   2
r2   3   4
-> . end
execution resumes...

** second case
tempvar x
matrix `x'=(1,2\3,4)
matrix list `x'

In the first case, I can't use macro name to inspect the matrix, but
the second case I can.
I wonder why it throws an error in the first case, and is there any
way to inspect the matrix instead of using the actual tempvar
__000000?

Thank you very much.

-- 
Wincent Ronggui HUANG (Ph.D.)
City University of Hong Kong
http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
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