In general, my advice is not to issue a program for
a version you don't have yourself, as you then
depend on others testing it.
In this case, you might try something like this
program myprog
version 8.2
local oktype = cond(`c(version)' < 9, "integer", "real")
syntax ... , ... Level(`oktype' `c(level)')
Nick
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Richard Williams
> In Stata 9.0, level need not be an integer anymore, e.g. it can be
> 99.99. Further, looking at the docs for the 9.0 -version-
> command, I don't
> see any indication that -level- reverts to old behavior under version
> control. Ergo, for a program written under 8.2, instead of coding
> something like
>
> Level(integer `c(level)')
>
> on the syntax command would it be better to code
>
> Level(string)
>
> and also dropping any error checks for level being between 10
> and 99? I
> know that can delay error checking but I think Stata itself
> will generate
> errors quickly enough if the level is illegal.
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