Re: st: missing values nightmare?

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

At 05:46 PM 10/3/2006, Diego Bassani wrote:

> Is it possible that no one noticed this? And if yes, why did stata 
> not fix it yet?
It is a feature, not a bug.  A lively discussion of this began with 
the thread at

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-01/msg00121.html

My own "If I ruled the world" preference is given at

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-01/msg00136.html

But, since I don't rule the world, I've learned to live with Stata's 
way of doing things.  It really isn't too hard to humor Stata on this 
and it would be far too hard for Stata to change now.

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