| Date: | Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:11:36 +0200 |
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| Reply-To: | Lex Jansen <l.jansen@NO_SPAMLEX-JANSEN.DEMON.NL> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Lex Jansen <l.jansen@NO_SPAMLEX-JANSEN.DEMON.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: V8 Macro oddity |
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"KenMon" <ken@nospamdeepview.com> wrote in message
news:TUv25.1327$vP1.48317@ord-read.news.verio.net...
> Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
>
> I still am curious why they reverted to the old form. Are there that many
> shops still running V5 that SAS wants to upgrade to V8? Another great
> mystery, I guess.
>
> HaveAGoodWeekEnd!
>
>
quote from SAS Institute "I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have
caused you."
Well, hell yes, this causes _GREAT_ inconvenience.
We have hundreds and hundreds of programs calling versions of standard
macros like: %<macro><version number>,
where the version number is defined in a different program.
Macro calls are like %release&_release; or title&_title;
I'm not gonna like this new behaviour !!
Why does version 8 have this downgrade behaviour ???
Thanks to these kind of changes, switching to version 8 is not as smooth as
the SAS marketing people tell you.
Lex Jansen
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