I guess that you are trying something a little nonstandard
given the special treatment of options whose names begin with
"no", which is documented.
I doubt very much that there is a bug, just a
misunderstanding by Stata!
I suspect that your problems would diminish if
you changed "ADJust" to "ADJust2". You need not
-- indeed should not -- show that extra "2" to users
in the help, but it would distinguish the options
to -syntax-.
A related issue is discussed at
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/syntax.html
Nick
[email protected]
Zurab Sajaia
> I encountered somewhat strange behavior of -syntax- command and was
> wandering if it's my fault or there is a problem indeed.
> Lets consider this simple program:
>
> capture program drop test
> program define test
> syntax [, NOADJust ADJust]
>
> display "`noadjust'"
> display "`adjust'"
> end
>
> test , noadjust
> //
> it works as expected, but if I change the order of options
> "syntax [, ADJust
> NOADJust]" then `adjust' local contains the value of option but local
> `noadjust' is always empty.
>
> Any ideas why it might happen?
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