RE: st: RE: -clemao_io- broken in Stata 9? - Addendum

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

It seems to me the complaint was not that -version 7- (or whatever) did not 
magically recreate 7 in its entirety.

Rather that a program written under 7, with an appropriate version 
statement, now no longer runs.  Isn't the whole point of -version- to 
prevent that?

--Nick Winter


At 10:27 AM 6/17/2005, you wrote:

> At 11:00 AM 6/17/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> I want to comment generally on the idea
> of version control. There seems to be a
> folklore idea that version control is a
> Stata variant on time travel, so that
> saying (e.g.)
>
> version 7
>
> means that everything is exactly as it
> was when Stata 7 was what you were dealing
> with. This is not so. The only way to
> experience the totality of Stata 7
> is to use Stata 7.
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