On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:01 AM, Yasuki Arasaki wrote:
> Why the new syntax? What's wrong with using DATA statements?
Because he said he was doing PARAMETERS. You can't use DATA statements
for PARAMETERS and there are plenty of good reasons for wanting
somethings to be PARAMETERS. Now perhaps a syntax suggestion would be
to allow DATA statements for PARAMETERS. Hmm. I haven't thought it
through, but I suspect there would be complications, though maybe not
too bad. I'm not entirely sure why it isn't allowed, though I might
speculate that it was thought that DATA statement syntax had so many
quirks that it was better to develop a replacement than to try to
extend it.
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