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Fri, 01 November 2002 09:04

R.G. Stockwell
Messages: 363
Registered: July 1999

Senior Member

Greetings all,

I am going through my monster IDL library, and was wondering what
people think of the practice of including a main level "example" or
"Test" code at the end of each function and procedure?

Are there any reasons not to do this?
I don't see any, but I am probably missing something, i usually am :).

I do this almost always (and in fact, I am planning to make this a rule,
so that all my functions will have an example if anyone runs the function.

Cheers,
bob stockwell

As an example of what I mean, here is a tiny (but useful) function:
You call it as result = range(array), but if you want to see an
example of the function, just do
IDL>.run range

function range, ts,_extra=_extra

if n_elements(ts) lt 1 then return,-1
return, [min(ts,_extra=_extra),max(ts,_extra=_extra)]
end

a = findgen(10)+44

print,range(a)

end

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