RE: st: Dropping programs

["Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>]

I think you probably have to rerun the ado file or discard it first. I think 
that's way how it works. Though you specified cap program drop myprog in the 
ado file, without truly running the ado file, this line is not executed by 
simply overwriting the old ado file. The old ado version is still in memory. 
My guess is that once an ado command is executed, it's in memory and unless 
you EXECUTE (do myprog.ado) the new version or tell Stata to discard, Stata 
won't execute the newly updated ado. Others might have comments.

Jun


> From: Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Dropping programs
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:06:35 -0500
>
> I'm trying to debug an ado file.  Every time I make a change and save the 
> file, I have to drop the program or use the -discard- command or else the 
> old version in memory still gets used by Stata.  But, I thought if I 
> started the program with
>
> -capture program drop myprog-, e.g.
>
> capture program drop myprog
> program define myprog
>         display "Hi!"
> end
>
> Then Stata would load the current version from disk rather than use the 
> version in memory.  But that is not happening., i.e. every time I make a 
> change I have to discard or drop the old version.  Am I missing something 
> obvious?  Thanks for any help.
>
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