st: mata conditional operator element-by-element?

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I checked the help for -m2_op_conditional- on up-to-date Stata 12.1 MP
for mac, and it looks like the conditional operator only works for
"general conditions", i.e. scalars, not element-by-element in vectors.
Much of my code did use -st_select-, but I thought some parts could
still be cleaner and/or more efficient if I could use something like
the conditional operator for vectors (as Matlab does allow). Please
let me know if you have good advice how to get from this

(t:/psc:^2 + (-1:*t:+1):/(-1:+psc):^2))

to something like this

(t == 1 ? psc : psc:-1)^2

[Yes, I would immediately see a problem with this syntax a colon
operator confusing the conditional operator…]

Thanks!

Laszlo

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