Date:         Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:56:57 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Inequality of Inequality Operators
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One of the items in my
Writing for Reading and Reuse
         or Testing
        Style Sheet

is to use mnemonics in conditions
and equal sign for assignments

if X eq 13 then Y = ...;

> DO _N_ eq 1 to dim...

love it!
just what I typed last week!

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov


> From: data _null_;

> Long before there was WHERE in SAS there was the MAX(<>) operator.
> Your example is also a good reason to use mnemonics.  I try
> to use them exclusively.  I have used EQ for = so much that
> one of my most common errors is writing EQ for assignment.
>
> DO _N_ eq 1 to dim...
>
> just doesn't work right.