Re: st: -choke-

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 09:39 PM 4/12/2012, E Michael Foster wrote:
> Whenever I change jobs (and that's not infrequently), my students 
> encounter a programming command that surprises them.  It's my -choke- command.
> I stick it in code to run part of a do file and stop execution at a 
> point in the code.  It returns an error and the student(s) think 
> they've done something wrong.
> I understand that I could submit part of a do-file by selecting it 
> within the Stata do-file editor.  But I don't use it.  I use ultraedit.
> So I think it's time to define chock.ado.
>
> program define choke
>      di "Mike says to stop!!!!"
>      qui stoprightnow
>      end
>
> This doesn't quite work because I don't want anything other than 
> "Mike says to stop!!!" in the log.
> I'd like to suppress the error message:
>        unrecognized command:  stoprightnow
>        r(199);
> yet, if I use -cap- execution proceeds.
>
> Suggestions?
Couldn't you just have an -exit- command?


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