Nasty bug.
I don't know the answer to the question about StataCorp's
thoughts, but one interim answer is to write your own wrapper
for -save- that insists on a filename being supplied.
Nick
[email protected]
Steven Stillman
> As an aside to this post, I learned the hard way a few months
> ago why -
> save `tempfile', replace - should be avoided in most
> circumstances. If the
> macro tempfile is undefined, say because you have misspelled it (for
> example, you set - tempfile steve - but then used - save
> `steven', replace),
> this reduces to - save, replace - which will overwrite the
> dataset you are
> working with.
>
> BTW, has statacorp ever thought about altering save so it
> requires a dataset
> name? In the circumstance above it is very dangerous that it does not
> require a dataset name. For example, in my case, I overwrote
> a raw dataset
> (which fortunately I had another copy of on a CD).
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