st: Re: Temporary variables saved by accident

[Adrian Sayers <Adrian.Sayers@bristol.ac.uk>]

Hi Billy,

Honestly i would have thought temporary variables would be have more like 
local macros.

Also the help file says they are dropped when the program or do file 
concludes .

So if i save the file, clear the data set, why are they all not dropped, so 
when i re-open the file they should not be there. After all my do file did 
conclude.

It just seems strange behaviour for temporary variables to be made 
permanent.

bw

A

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