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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25687 is a reply to message #25685]

Tue, 10 July 2001 18:21

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> writes:

> It will make code harder to read and understand. Once you give your
> code to others, they may use it in other code with abbreviated
> keywords and not enough comments as to what they are doing. The
> current set up does not allow this.
>
> Therefore it is A Good Thing. :o)
>
>> So who is frustrated enough to put in a feature
>> request with RSI (/VNI?) for this, for the benefit of us all?
>
> I wonder if there is a way for me to write a little Perl script to
> automatically send in a Feature Un-Request whenever this Feature
> Request is emailed to RSI...... :o)

If that really is the RSI policy, then they should make it an error to
compile a procedure with ambiguous keywords. If I can define the TIME
and TIMEUNIT keywords, then I should fairly well be able to use them
both! [ Now I could be sneaky and use _EXTRA to get around this, but
you've just told us why not to be sneaky. :-]

Craig

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		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 09:36
		Re: Am I stupid? By: James Kuyper on Wed, 11 July 2001 09:48
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 11:08
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:47
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:21
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:03
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 04:11
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Wed, 11 July 2001 02:57
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Wed, 11 July 2001 02:56
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 10 July 2001 18:21
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 10 July 2001 09:37
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Tue, 10 July 2001 08:23
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Bob Crawford on Tue, 10 July 2001 08:03
		Re: Am I stupid? By: hcp on Tue, 10 July 2001 07:50
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 10 July 2001 07:18
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 10 July 2001 06:53
		Re: Am I stupid? By: thompson on Wed, 11 July 2001 14:02
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 10:01

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