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I use macros heavily, I just wish these macro control structures and macro data types were more integrated with Base SAS. It seems to me SAS was made long ago just to process tabular data in sequence, and macros were added later to allow more automation. But I want to be able to, say, make a numeric variable holding one value in the middle of nowhere, not in a data step. The only way to do that is to make a 1 x 1 table. So inefficient. Then to use it on a table, I would have to merge it with the table. So inefficient. I wish SAS were more like C++ or Visual Basic.