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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25753 is a reply to message #25702]

Thu, 12 July 2001 00:23

colinr
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Registered: July 1999

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On 11 Jul 2001 21:02:04 GMT,
William Thompson <thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov> wrote:

> I've also been occasionally frustrated by this behavior, but I've come to the
> conclusion (a little reluctantly) that it's actually ``A Good Thing''. In a
> perfect world, we could be sure that the user remembered not to use TIME as an
> abbreviation of TIMESTEP, but you and I know that we don't live in a perfect
> world.
>
> It would be better, as somebody has already suggested, if situations like this
> were caught by the compiler, instead of waiting until somebody actually tried
> to use the TIME keyword. But the present abbreviation rules should not be
> changed.

However the current situation also allows the related problem I
described:

pro MySurfacePlot,axiscolor=axiscolor,_extra=e

<do some stuff with colors>
shade_surf,MyData,_extra=e

end

which works perfectly for the first 100 times the user uses it until
the day he trys to set the AX keyword. Thus to use _extra correctly one
must bear in mind all possible valid keywords to all inheriting
subroutines and ensure that none of programmer-defined keywords
can be abbreviated as any of them.

--
Colin Rosenthal
Astrophysics Institute
University of Oslo

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		Am I stupid? By: colinr on Tue, 10 July 2001 06:29
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Thu, 12 July 2001 10:56
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Thu, 12 July 2001 10:49
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 12 July 2001 08:01
		Re: Am I stupid? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 18 July 2001 23:47
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 24 July 2001 02:25
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Wed, 08 August 2001 04:12
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Thu, 12 July 2001 00:23
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 11 July 2001 22:06
		Re: Am I stupid? By: m.hadfield on Wed, 11 July 2001 19:20
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:48
		Re: Am I stupid? By: James Kuyper on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:04
		Re: Am I stupid? By: William Clodius on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:23
		Re: Am I stupid? By: William Clodius on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:14
		Re: Am I stupid? By: gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 14:04
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 24 July 2001 05:52

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