Hi:
There's no Strunk and White or Chicago Style manual, if that's what you mean. There are a lot of papers on good coding practices. In Programming 1, we have some basic recommendations for program style:
1) start each statement on a new line
2) indent lines and use white space to aid readability.
3) use comments
As an example, which program would you rather work with?
proc print data=sashelp.class;title 'my title'; var sex age name height weight; run;
proc print data=sashelp.class;
title 'my title';
var sex age name height weight;
run;
** This is my first report;
proc print data=sashelp.class;
title 'my title';
var sex age name height weight;
run;
They are all the same program, I'd rather work with 3 or 2. Program 1 would make me crazy. But SAS doesn't care about readability, so it doesn't care.
Cynthia
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