Chapter 1: Let’s Get Started–Preliminaries and a SAS Quick Start9
I believe that the all uppercase version of the code is the least readable of these three
samples. The preference between the othertwo sampleswith either a mix of case or all
lowercase isa matter of personal taste.
1.2.4 Indent program statements that naturally go together
By indenting program statements, you highlight linesthat accompany a procedure or
statement. Or, you identify blocks of code that are executed together in the case of loops
or conditionally executed statements. (There is more to come on this in the DO-END and
IF-THEN constructs in later chapters.) Com ...
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