st: Using -J()- in Mata when initializing vectors

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Does anyone have advice about whether -J(1, <vector length>, <element>)- or 
-J(<vector length>, 1, <element>)- is better when initializing a -vector- 
organizational type in Mata?  

The online documentation for declarations (-help m2_declarations-) says, "If n 
had been declared a vector, a 0 x 1 vector would have been created.  Mata could
just as well have created a 1 x 0 vector, but it creates a 0 x 1."  This is the
same result as when n is declared to be -colvector- (see just above in the help
file).  Can I rightly construe this to imply that Mata would favor 
-J(<vector length>, 1, <element>)-?

Assuming that the -vector- organizational type is not intended for use in
inner or outer products, etc., is there any other reason to favor one -J()- 
over the other with -vector-?

Joseph Coveney


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