I guess that you are trying something a little nonstandard
given the special treatment of options whose names begin with
"no", which is documented.
I doubt very much that there is a bug, just a
misunderstanding by Stata!
I suspect that your problems would diminish if
you changed "ADJust" to "ADJust2". You need not
-- indeed should not -- show that extra "2" to users
in the help, but it would distinguish the options
to -syntax-.
A related issue is discussed at
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/syntax.html
Nick
[email protected]
Zurab Sajaia
I encountered somewhat strange behavior of -syntax- command and was
wandering if it's my fault or there is a problem indeed.
Lets consider this simple program:
capture program drop test
program define test
syntax [, NOADJust ADJust]
display "`noadjust'"
display "`adjust'"
end
test , noadjust
//
it works as expected, but if I change the order of options
"syntax [, ADJust
NOADJust]" then `adjust' local contains the value of option but local
`noadjust' is always empty.
Any ideas why it might happen?
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