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Re: Dumb Dumb Question [message #13554 is a reply to message #13534]

Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Liam Gumley <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> writes:
>
>
> "When calling a routine with a keyword parameter, you can abbreviate the
> keyword to its shortest, unambiguous abbrevation".
>
> Cheers,
> Liam.
>

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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