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Metaprogramming: What it is, how to use it, and why you should care

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  • Billy Buchanan

    (SAG Corporation)

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Metaprogramming provides a highly flexible approach to solving complex programming problems. Although metaprogramming can be challenging to implement in some programming languages, metaprogramming is easy to implement in Stata largely because of the evaluation of local macros. However, metaprogramming is rarely discussed in the Stata community despite the benefits that metaprogramming can and does provide for many Stata users already. This talk will include a discussion of what metaprogramming is and how metaprogramming can be used effectively to increase efficiency and will illustrate the use of metaprogramming in Stata.

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  • Billy Buchanan, 2023. "Metaprogramming: What it is, how to use it, and why you should care," 2023 Stata Conference 16, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:usug23:16
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