SAS Packages Framework, version 20231009

[yabwon]

Hey SAS-C!

Just FYI.

Bart

SAS Packages Framework, version 20231009

Available as usual at: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES

Changes:

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Bug fix in the %generatePackage() macro.

Thanks to Richann Watson for finding and reporting a but in the %generatePackage() macro.

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Documentation updated.

[Tom]

Trying to read this description and some of the code...

Why do you need to complicate things by having two separate macros for loading one package versus loading multiple packages?  Why not just accept a normal space delimited list of packages?

%macro loadPackage
/*  Load SAS Packages */
(packageNames  
  /* Space delimited list of Package names with optional version numbers */
  /* Examples:  */
  /* %loadPackage(myPackage1) */
  /* %loadPackage(myPackage1 yourPackage2) */
  /* %loadPackage(myPackage1(1.7) yourPackage2(4.2)) */

[yabwon]

The %loadPackage() was the first, with all its options.

It was a bit later when I realised that I could add some "syntactic sugar" to replace:

%loadPackage(myPackage1)
%loadPackage(myPackage2)
%loadPackage(myPackage3)
%loadPackage(myPackage4)

with 

%loadPackageS(myPackage1, myPackage2, myPackage3, myPackage4)

The idea was: "different packages may have different loading options which can be customised" if you want to do customisation then load it in separate calls. If you just need a "simple" load of them all, you can use syntactic sugar of %loadPackageS().

But I see a development route in your suggestion! 🙂

Bart