"sasplumber" <sasplumber@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cc5f612e-2740-4db4-a4ee-88cb6185ff86@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... > The folks that run the NOTE blog just blew me away with their latest > posting. I have never heard of the NOTE2ERR option, but it makes SAS > behave in the way it should always have done. it tells SAS to report > uninitialized values and implicit conversions from char to num as > *errors*

I don't know about the "should always" - SAS was originally intended to give non-programmers access to computing power, and a lot was done (like automatic type conversions) to protect non-programmers from themselves.

But that was then and this is now. This is a terrific option - pity it's undocumented. As a matter of policy, we do not use undocumented stuff in production code.

> You've got to see this to believe it... http://notecolon.blogspot.com > > Great blog in general. I'm subscribed to their daily email digest so I > don't have to keep visiting their site. It sends me an email on any > day when there's a new post. > > -Plumber