Thank you Vince, for clarifying this.
Ricardo.
--- "Vince Wiggins, StataCorp" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> In reply to a question from Jean Ries
> <[email protected]>, Ricardo Ovaldia
> <[email protected]> writes
>
> > I find that sometimes -discard- does not always
> work, so I like
> > using -program drop _all- instead.
>
> and Nick Cox <[email protected]> commented
> further that
>
> > -discard- as I understand it includes -program
> drop _all-.
>
> That is very close, but the distinction is a bit
> more subtle. -discard- drops
> all "automatically loaded programs" and that means
> any programs defined by any
> ado-file. It does not drop programs defined
> interactively or in do-files.
> -program drop _all- does not distinguish and drops
> them all. It would be
> extremely rare, but neither will drop a program if
> that program is currently
> running, for example if -discard- were a line in the
> program itself or a
> subprogram called by the program.
>
>
> -- Vince
> [email protected]
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Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
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Oklahoma City, OK
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