RE: st: Dropping programs

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 10:37 PM 3/26/2005 -0600, Jun Xu wrote:
> I think you probably have to rerun the ado file or discard it first. I 
> think that's way how it works. Though you specified cap program drop 
> myprog in the ado file, without truly running the ado file, this line is 
> not executed by simply overwriting the old ado file. The old ado version 
> is still in memory. My guess is that once an ado command is executed, it's 
> in memory and unless you EXECUTE (do myprog.ado) the new version or tell 
> Stata to discard, Stata won't execute the newly updated ado. Others might 
> have comments.
>
> Jun
Thanks Jun.  I still wonder if I am doing something wrong or missing 
something obvious, as I've seen other programs start with -capture program 
drop progname-.

Anyway, I have found a solution.  I've written a program whose sole 
function in life is to call the program I am editing/debugging:

program define x
        capture program drop myprog
        myprog `0'
end

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