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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25694 is a reply to message #25692]

Tue, 10 July 2001 08:23

Jaco van Gorkom
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Registered: November 2000

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Craig Markwardt wrote:
> "Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec-nospam.wisc.edu> writes:
>> Colin Rosenthal wrote:
>>> ... to have a keyword AXISCOLOR in a routine that also accepts
>>> the AX keyword. ...
>> ...
>> "Keywords can be abbreviated to their shortest unique length"
>>
>> In your case, the keyword AX precludes the use of another keyword which
>> begins with the letters "AX". A good rule of thumb is to make the first
>> 3 characters of each keyword unique.
> ...
> Not that this doesn't frustrate the heck out of me sometimes. There
> are many times where I want keywords like TIME, TIMEUNIT, TIMESTEP,
> and so on. My suggestion is that the above policy should hold,
> *unless* there is an exact match to a specific keyword.

There is no reason why this behaviour could not be introduced in the next
version of IDL, or is there? So who is frustrated enough to put in a feature
request with RSI (/VNI?) for this, for the benefit of us all?

Jaco

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Jaco van Gorkom gorkom@rijnh.nl
FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica "Rijnhuizen", The Netherlands

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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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