st: using "/" symbol in matrix row names, Stata 10

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

This question might refer to the StataCorp folks but I still decided to post 
it here. And apologies for asking it again but the last time it was part of 
another discussion and I guess escaped most of the people's attention.

In the previous versions it was legitimate to write:

. mat a=4
. mat rownames a = /name

and the result was as expected (by me):

. mat list a
symmetric a[1,1]
     c1
/name   4

. mat rownames a = eqn:/name

. mat list a
symmetric a[1,1]
     c1
eqn:/name   4

Now if I try to do the same thing in Stata 10:

. mat a=4
. mat rownames a = /name
. mat list a
symmetric a[1,1]
     c1
name:_cons  4

and in the second case:

. mat rownames a = eqn:/name
/name invalid name

Since I'm using "/" symbol in the matrix row names in one of my programs I'd 
really like to know if it's a bug in Stata 10 that might be fixed some time 
soon or the change in behavior was intentional (I couldn't find any changes 
in the help file) and I need to modify my program in order for it to keep 
working.


Thanks in advance for all insights,
Zurab 
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