Re: st: question: mata compilation line skip rules

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

2012/3/29 László Sándor :
> One of the biggest hints one gets when Mata does not compile is how
> many lines were skipped. (I cannot get myself a line number with -set
> matalnum- or -set matadebug-.)
>
> I could not find the documentation on the rules how this is done. How
> could I reverse engineer which piece of my code did not compile?
>
> I have an ado file with multiple Mata function definitions at the end,
> also cross-referencing to one another.

One way is to open the ado file in the do-file editor and do that .ado
file. This in essence treats the .ado file as a .do file that creates
a (set of) program(s) and Mata functions. You usually have to first
type -clear all- to make sure none of these aren't already in memory.
What you are looking for are the first error messages in the Mata
section. These are usually a pretty good indicator of where the
problem is. The later error messages are usually just the results of
the earlier errors and not very informative.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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