The IMLPlus Language
IMLPlus is an enhanced version of the IML programming language. The enhancements provided by IMLPlus can be broadly divided into two groups: enhancements to standard IML functionality, and Java-oriented language extensions. In addition, IMLPlus provides a mechanism through which you can call external user-defined functions written in programming languages such as C, Fortran, and Java.
IML Language Extensions
- Call SAS procedures within the context of an IML program, and optionally pass values of IML variables to the procedures.
- Use modules without explicitly loading them.
- Create a local symbol table for a module with no parameters.
- Include constant expressions in numeric matrix literals.
- Use matrix expressions with I/O statements.
- Define aliases for modules. (An alias is similar to a function pointer in the C programming language.)
- See the output from print statements immediately by using the printnow statement.
- Store matrices and modules in specific files and/or directories on your Windows PC.
Java-oriented Language Extensions
- Define variables of Java data types.
- Create objects from arbitrary Java classes.
- Access methods and properties exposed by Java objects.
- Pass Java variables and objects to IML modules.
- Use Java operators with Java variables.
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