Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:05 +0000
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From: Ian Whitlock <iw1junk@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Rockville MD
Sumary: Input stack history and other remarks
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Jack,
The macro facility dumps the generated code in the "input stack" for
SAS compilation and execution. I suspect the term stack is used to
because this code is executed before the code below the macro call. I
know, this term does not stack up well with the Fundamental Data
Structures term stack.
However, as a SAS term it has been in use for a long time. It appears
on page 81 and numerous times after that in the 1983 "SAS MAcro
Language Course Notes" and on page 9 of "SAS Macro Language:
reference, Version 8" and throughout Chapter 2. Using the search
facility at <http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp>
shows 10 references to the term "input stack".
Doesn't the subject "Washington Union Station to National Harbor?"
warrant an OT: label?
I agree with you on smoking, but then we live in the most populated
regions of the US in the 21st century. Toby appears to be caught in a
space/time warp of human values developed before cancer, asthma, and
other diseases and their causes became known.
Ian Whitlock
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:20:09 -0700
Reply-To: Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
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From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
Subject: Re: Rockville MD
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Where does the macro language use stacks? Does he mean nested macro
calls (which probably use stacks internally), or is there some feature
I don't know about?
-- Jack Hamilton jfh@alumni.stanford.org videtis illam spirare
libertatis auram
On Aug 29, 2008, at 10:14 am, Choate, Paul@DDS wrote:
> Fyi - Toby asked me to report that he's having fun driving the macro
> instructor crazy - she apparently can't distinguish between >
compilation > and execution, and has no idea of what a stack is. > >
He liked your World Programming suggestion too, Ian. ;-) > > Why isn't
this OT? > > Paul Choate > DDS Data Extraction > (916) 654-2160 > >
-----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [
mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ian > Whitlock > Sent:
Friday, August 29, 2008 8:06 AM > To: SAS-L > Subject: Spam: Re:
Rockville MD > > Toby, > > You can create enough smoke to inhale in
class by > mentioning WPS often enough, but don't yell "FIRE". > > Ian
Whitlock
