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Re: st: Dropping Program Saved as an ado-file
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Dropping Program Saved as an ado-file
Date
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:00:29 +0200
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> 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.
Absolutely, and for the example program I gave earlier, that is
probably the way I would go too. However, I suspected that in the
original question Christoph wanted to pass these temporary variables
on to a likelihood evaluator program, and I don't see a
straightforward way to implement this "option-strategy" within -ml-.
-- Maarten
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