5th UK Meeting: Programming in Stata

Title		Programming in Stata (e.g., from do-files to ado-files; what's different in version 6).
Speaker		Alan Riley, StataCorp

• Stata 6 changes exclusive to do-files
• Narrowing the distinction between ado-files and internal commands
• Saved results
• adopath and sysdir
• net and ado
• When a command is launched...
• Important changes for programmers
  • syntax command
    • syntax command, details (1)
    • syntax command, details (2)
  • Positional arguments
  • Low-level parsing
  • Marking the sample
  • Compound double quotes
  • Compound double quotes, continued
  • Putting it together
  • Saved results details
  • Saved results, more details
• Miscellaneous additions
  • Maintaining backwards compatibility
  • Low-level parsing revisited
  • New display features
• Useful tips for estimation commands
  • Replaying estimation results
  • Writing extensions to predict
  • Writing extensions to predict, continued
• Where do we go next?