Re: st: s(result) : "12"

[Klaus Pforr <kpforr@googlemail.com>]

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it seems to be a small bug in the _tab.class.
Thanx anyway.

Klaus

Kit Baum schrieb:
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> while examining how return works, I found that very often (always?)
> estimation commands not only issue ereturn-results, as i expected, but
> also a sreturn-result, namely (result) : "12". Does anybody why this is,
> where it is stored, and what it is used for?
>
> As -help sreturn- tells you, items in the sreturns are associated with programming commands that do parsing, etc. If you start up a fresh Stata session, sysuse auto, reg price mpg, sreturn list, you will find one item in the sreturn. Presumably this is a side effect of parsing the command. I would not worry about it.
>
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