Fun post. Blame me not finding it until now on warped spacetime. After some thought I realized that we can continue this embedding. Here are three steps deep: data AAA; set SASHELP.CARS; where ORIGIN eq 'Asia'; data BBB; merge AAA SASHELP.CARS; by MAKE; where TYPE eq 'Truck'; proc sql; create table CCC as (select Make, Model, MSRP from BBB); quit; run; run; I'm reminded of somebody who said "Every flea has smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite 'em. And those fleas and smaller fleas, and so ad infinitum." One further warning - if you use the "Format Code" button on the final SAS code, it ceases working completely. I gather the black hole sucks everything in. (black holes really suck.)
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