Re: st: RE: Critique on comment syntax and suggestions

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Steven Samuels wrote:

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> I've been bitten in the past by omitting semicolons. I now use continuation 
> characters, and reserve the semicolon to delimit single commands, especially 
> for graphs, that have many, often long, options. I find such commands easier 
> to read and modify if each option is on a single line. If I use continuation 
> characters in such commands, the lines look messy unless I line the 
> characters up. For me that's too much work. As Nick said, it's personal 
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> Bryce, you are asking Stata's do-file editor to find syntax errors, and I

Not really - the line:

  drop if criticalvar=1;

is stricktly speaking part of the comment, and he is asking that it be 
colored as a comment, to match the view that Stata will take. Currently 
the editor is treating it as executable, which is clearly an incorrect 
parsing of the code.

> don't think that's its function.  After reading the second post David 
> referred to (it's by Joseph Coveney), I don't really see a bug. Off topic, 
> "Stata" is spelled "Stata." See the FAQ Section 8.2.
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> Steve




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