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Re: User selectable lower array bound? [message #26174 is a reply to message #26093]

Mon, 06 August 2001 07:29

thompson
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Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:

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

>> Hey there,
>>
>> Is is just me, or would anyone else find useful the ability to define arrays in IDL such
>> that the lower bound is *not* always zero? Sorta like:
>>
>> x = FINDGEN( 11, LOWER = -5 )
>> or
>> y = DBLARR( 100, LOWER = 1 )
>>
>> so that accessing elements such as x[ -4 ] or y[ 100 ] are o.k.?

> Well, as grumpy as I have been in the past about IDL wishes, this is
> one thing I do not want to have in IDL now!

I'm glad I'm not the only one! When I first saw this proposal, I thought to
myself that I could hear the tinkly sound of code breaking all over the place.
:^)

William Thompson

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[Message index]

		User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 02 August 2001 14:47
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Jeff Guerber on Fri, 03 August 2001 16:11
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 03 August 2001 15:36
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 03 August 2001 15:08
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 06 August 2001 09:21
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: thompson on Mon, 06 August 2001 07:29
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 03 August 2001 09:49
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Fri, 03 August 2001 09:25
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Marcus O'Brien on Fri, 03 August 2001 03:40
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 08 August 2001 12:26
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 08 August 2001 08:04
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 08 August 2001 04:47
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 08 August 2001 04:46
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 08 August 2001 07:29
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: marc schellens[1] on Tue, 07 August 2001 04:36
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 07 August 2001 10:21
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 07 August 2001 08:24
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: bennetsc on Mon, 06 August 2001 20:26
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 06 August 2001 13:52
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 06 August 2001 09:47
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 06 August 2001 09:06
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 09 August 2001 07:04
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: david[2] on Thu, 09 August 2001 06:51
		Re: User selectable lower array bound? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 09 August 2001 06:15

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