| Re: Dumb Dumb Question [message #13534] |
Thu, 19 November 1998 00:00  |
Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997
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Craig Markwardt wrote:
> Liam Gumley <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> writes:
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>> "When calling a routine with a keyword parameter, you can abbreviate the
>> keyword to its shortest, unambiguous abbrevation".
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>> Cheers,
>> Liam.
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> I have been bitten by this alot. I have often wanted to have keywords
> like TIME, TIMEBIN, TIMECOL in the same procedure. For some reason
> it's perfectly legal to compile such a procedure, but I can never use
> the "TIME" keyword because it's ambiguous.
>
> I would much prefer that the IDL byte compiler would issue a *warning*
> when an ambiguity like that appears. I think that when a procedure is
> called with "TIME=xxx", and that exact keyword exists, then there
> should be no ambiguity.
>
> Craig
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> Craig B. Markwardt, Ph.D. EMAIL: craigmnet@astrog.physics.wisc.edu
> Astrophysics, IDL, Finance, Derivatives | Remove "net" for better response
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I fully agree! I always run into this problem when I try to specify a PS
keyword to turn postscript output on and a PSFILENAME keyword to direct it
into a specific file....
Martin.
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