st: -capture noisily- shorthand

[annoporci <annoporci@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalist,

I want to systematically use -capture noisily- throughout a do-file with  
multiple loops (as some fail).

The shortest form for it is -cap n-

Not bad. However, I thought it would be neater to have something even  
shorter, say -cn-. Unfortunately that's an "unrecognized command"  
(implemented in a future version of Stata maybe?)

I defined a macro to store "capture noisily" and repeatedly use the macro.  
See the example code below.

I used a "global" macro so that I could use the dollar sign in front of it  
-- easy to type and remember.

The trick seems to work, but is it an acceptable practice? any pitfalls?

many thanks.

--
Patrick Toche.


/// Different ways of preceding a command with -capture noisily-

clear all

sysuse auto

capture noisily regress price mpg rep78

cap n reg price mpg rep78

cap n reg price mpg rep79

global cn "capture noisily"

$cn reg price mpg rep78

$cn reg price mpg rep79

regress price mpg rep78
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