RE: st: What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?

[Pradipto Banerjee <pradipto.banerjee@adainvestments.com>]

Nick

I don't understand your line of thought ... you actually want me NOT to advance my understanding of programming in Stata? Why are some folks allowed to understand advanced programming and others not?

Sorry to say this, but one huge negative of Stata is that there is so much undocumented stuff - and for efficient programming we have to repeatedly rely on email lists like this.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:33 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?

These are names of globals defined in -egen- to communicate between
programs, which manifestly can't be done through locals, apart from
using non-documented features. If you're following my earlier advice
you will leave them in peace.

Nick

On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:03, Pradipto Banerjee <pradipto.banerjee@adainvestments.com
 > wrote:

> I noticed some of the codes, e.g. _ggroup2 use EGEN_Varname and
> EGEN_SVarname and recently one of the codes shared by Nick (called
> ereplace) use these. What is EGEN_Varname and EGEN_SVarname ?
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