RE: st: RE: RE: -outreg2- in Stata 10, Richard

["roy wada" <roywada@hotmail.com>]

Alright, I went back into the program and checked things out.
I am happy to report that Richard is "probably" correct and I
was wrong. I only say "probably" because I did not look
at every possibility.

As Nick reported earlier, -outreg2- has a convoluted structure.
The main program is located in the middle of the ado file. It was
the main program that was missing the version control.

(To be absolutely clear: a sub-program called -outreg2Main-
is not the main program. It used to be. -outreg2- is its own
main program. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 of -outreg2- are missing
version control for the main program. Version 1.3 has this
problem fixed.)

As far as I can tell, Stata Corp does not need to worry about the
possibility of "puzzling consequences."

Roy

> > Richard's guess, as I understand it, was that when a program
> > calls another, the -version- set is passed on (unless it is
> > was explicitly set to something else inside).
> That is indeed my guess. And I would further guess that
> when control returns to the calling program, version is
> reset to whatever it was in that program, e.g. if version
> was 9.2. and a program is called that sets version to 6.0,
> after that program is executed version is again 9.2. And
> when control returns to the command line it will be 10.0
> again (or whatever version you are using).
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