Re: st: Dropping Program Saved as an ado-file

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

You're after:
program drop

Rather than:
drop program

Phil

On 05/09/2012, at 8:44 AM, Christoph Engel wrote:

> Dear readers of Stata list,
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> On the following programming problem, your help would be greatly appreciated. 
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> I am writing a program, which I wish to save as an ado-file. The program consists of two components: a maximum likelihood estimator, and the program calling the estimator. I need several auxiliary variables that are available in both components. I have found out that this works if I generate them as _x-variables, i.e. as variables with the variable name preceded by an underscore (assuming that users are very unlikely to have such variable names in their original datasets). 
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> I begin my program with
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>       capt drop program myprogram
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> and then use
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>      capt drop _x
>      capt drop _y
>      (... one line for each auxiliary variable)
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> If I call the program from a do-file, this works just fine. But once I save the program as an ado-file, to make it automatically available, the program is no longer dropped when it is executed for the second time. This creates a problem (only) if users break the execution of the program; otherwise I drop all auxiliary variables at the end of my program.
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> The best I could find on Statalist is this answer by Nick Winter
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> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-12/msg00568.html
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> This helps to understand, but not to solve my problem. Currently, the best I have come up with is adding a note to the help file: if users break the program, they should use "discard" before they reexecute the program. Is there a way to put this directly into the program?
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> Many thanks for any help!
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> Christoph Engel
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