RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?

["Liao, Junlin" <junlin-liao@uiowa.edu>]

This fourth option is perfect. Thanks,

Junlin

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:49 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: A bug in egen and gen?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> The alternatives include
>
> 1. You always have to tell -generate-, etc. what variable type you
> want created. On the whole, I don't think that would be a popular
> change.
>
> 2. You write your own wrappers for -generate-, etc. that insist on
> variable type being specified. That is programmable.
>
> 3. Your attitude is that Stata should always be smart enough to work
> out what you want. Good luck on that one.

4. set type double, [permanent]


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