st: Suggestion for merge addition

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

The version 8 -merge- offer a number of important improvements.  Among 
these are the series of -unique- options. If violated, they cause the merge 
step to fail. Sometimes, however, it may be desirable to continue  the 
merge even if -unique- fails. Jeroen Weesie's older -mmerge- handled this 
problem by issuing a warning, but allowing the merge to continue. This can 
be very useful. I'd like to suggest that Stata consider  adding a -warn- 
option to merge.

Fred Wolfe






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