Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:45:21 -0500
Reply-To: pudding_man@lycos.com
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From: Puddin' Man <pudding_man@LYCOS.COM>
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Subject: Re: Old Macro Code (maybe V5)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:19:27
Quentin McMullen wrote:
>And it's not just SAS-L folks who would want it. Seems to have scored
>fairly high on last year's SASWare ballot as well:
>
>add line numbers to MPRINT output so that line numbers are continuous in the
>SAS log
>
>Overall Rank Part Rank Number of Votes
>28.0 3.0 512
Oh, they've added it back? Or maybe it's been there
for the last 10 years? <g> Thanks for checking ...
>So for those who have been following the growth of SAS longer than me (I
>have only vague childhood memories of green bar paper, and my first
>encounter with punch cards came when cleaning out an old storage cabinet),
>should this be taken as a sign that SAS might actually start working on it?
This po' fella will make no such assumptions. It has
been too, too long ...
To my knowledge, there is no requirement that items
on the SASWare ballot be 100% practical to implement.
Aren't there several items that have carried forward
from year to year in spite of hi scores?
Zalut,
Puddin'
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Crawford [mailto:peter.crawford@DB.COM]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:33 AM
>> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Old Macro Code (maybe V5)
>>
>>
>> it should be possible for some SI developer to
>> explain why it is now difficult to provide.........
>> But despite the obvious open question
>> there is still no answer on sas-L !
>> Regards
>> Peter Crawford
>>
>>
>> Datum: 24/10/2002 01:21
>> An: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Peter Crawford/Zentrale/DeuBaExt@Zentrale
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Antwort an: pudding_man@lycos.com
>>
>> Betreff: Re: Old Macro Code (maybe V5)
>> Nachrichtentext:
>>
>> As I recall, the V5 and V82 macro facility
>> yielded line numbers while it nested, looped,
>> etc.
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, the line numbers "went away"
>> when SAS dropped PL/1 for C (for V6) back in the 80's.
>>
>> I was one of a small handful that pissed and
>> moaned mightily until it became obvious that
>> the line numbers "would never/ever return".
>>
>> Salud,
>> Puddin'
>>
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>>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:19:09
>> Peter Crawford wrote:
>> >I think this numbering of old-sstyle macro code (o.s)
>> >is only possible because o.s does not nest, nor loop,
>> >nor invoke any logic before the syntax is passed for
>> >execution.
>>
>
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