Date:         Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:55:00 -0700
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: ++ Operator
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"Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV> queried:
> I keep seeing "++" in SAS-L posts....but not in the online doc(s). Am
I
> missing something?  I know you've set a counter with an implicit
retain, but
> I don't know what "++" does instead of "+".  Thanks in advance.

It's a 'Dorfmanism'.  As far as I can recall, Paul Dorfman
started it.

> BTW - Howard this preview/process idea is a really interesting way to
look
> "across" by groups without multiple passes across the dataset.  Thanks
for
> the idea.

I seem to recall Howard telling me that he got the idea from
Ian Whitlock.  But I also first saw it in one of Howard's posts.

David
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David Cassell, CSC
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Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician