While this evidently works for -gologit2-, it is emphatically not a
universal solution for reasons explained in the FAQ I referred to
earlier in this thread.
In essence, -version- is not a time machine, just a flag to Stata that
some features of some commands are until further notice within a program
to run as they used to under a certain version. Even less is -version-
an incantation that solves all version difficulties!
Nick
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Richard Williams
As a sidelight, my gologit2 program was written for Stata 8.2, but
when 9 came out I wanted it to also support some of the new
properties. So, the opening code is like this:
capture program gologit2, eclass byable(recall) sortpreserve ///
properties(swml or rrr irr hr eform)
if `c(stata_version)' < 9 program gologit2, eclass
byable(recall) sortpreserve
if `c(stata_version)' < 9 {
version 8.2
}
else {
version 9
}
I don't know if that is good programming practice, but it seems to work!
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