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Re: st: Dropping Program Saved as an ado-file
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Dropping Program Saved as an ado-file
Date
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:56:34 +0100
An alternative is to pass the names of temporary variables via an
option. If you have
tempvar foobar
gen `foobar' = ...
you can call a subprogram with
... foobar(`foobar')
This requires care, but so does sharing names via a global. For
example, that global will stick around with inbuilt potential to mess
up other things if you are not careful.
Nick
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:
>> di as txt "Dispay summary of " as result "yvar"
>> sum $yvar
>>
>> di _n as txt "Dislay summary of " as result "xvars"
>> sum $xvars
>
> hmm... this is obviously not a good example if one wants to learn how
> to spell "Display".
>
> However, I guess (and hope) people interested in such issue won't go
> to the Statalist.
>
>
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