That's correct, but your program hasn't concluded. "Program" here is
the main interactive session, and you have not finished it when you
-save-.
Nick
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Adrian Sayers
<Adrian.Sayers@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
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