st: Reshape message - nn values will be changed

[Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes@ed.ac.uk>]

I have tracked down a brief interchange on Statalist in November 2006 
of a message that is occasionally generated by -reshape- saying that 
"nn values will be changed; not changed".  Alan Riley explained that 
the message was flagging changes in precision and that it might be 
suppressed.  I still get it occasionally and then have to track down 
what is going on.  In my experience it is generated when (a) the 
variables being reshaped - as in -reshape long x1 x2 x3-
are a mixture of double and float, and (b) the type of variable x is 
not specified, so that by default it would be float but it needs to 
be recast as double not to lose precision.

Would it be possible and desirable either to suppress the message 
altogether or at least make it more informative.

Gordon Hughes
g.a.hughes@ed.ac.uk

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