st: private vs public mata (user written) functions

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

Hi everybody,

While trying to minimize unnecessary stuff put in my mata library I ran into 
one question and would appreciate to have a clear answer for future work 
(kind of answer usually Bill would provide, thanks again for your time Bill)

I have a "public" mata function that is used by a stata command (.ado file). 
My mata function in turn uses two other "private" mata functions. Either I'm 
making some other mistake or all three must be added to a library for 
everything to work and then we have a situation that two "private" 
functions, which are no use outside of main "public" one are also visible. I 
know that following Stata's open-source spirit I might end up distributing 
the un-compiled code anyways but wanted to know for sure if the 
private/public function setup is possible.

Thanks,
Zurab


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