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Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! [message #52960 is a reply to message #52872]

Fri, 09 March 2007 17:33

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Paul van Delst wrote:
...
> That's not how I interpreted Mike's post. I meant if given a procedure like:
>
> pro mypro, input_var, output_var
> output_var = input_var + 1.0
> end
>
> then don't call it thusly,
>
> x = 1.0
> mypro, x, x
>
>
> I don't even know if it's possible in IDL... or f95..or C... or..? Hence my "why on
> earth...?"

Well, it's trivially possible in every one of those languages - you've
just shown how to do it in IDL. It can even be a good idea, when the
function involved is documented as having been written to handle in-
place creation of an output array from an input array.

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		Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: yp on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:12
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Sven Geier on Mon, 12 March 2007 15:04
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 12 March 2007 15:30
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 12 March 2007 15:19
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: James Kuyper on Fri, 09 March 2007 17:33
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 09 March 2007 14:53
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 09 March 2007 14:45
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 09 March 2007 13:11
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 March 2007 11:52
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 09 March 2007 11:43
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 09 March 2007 11:13
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: JD Smith on Mon, 12 March 2007 17:18
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 March 2007 10:36
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 09 March 2007 10:27
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 March 2007 09:31
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 09 March 2007 09:18
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 March 2007 08:51
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: yp on Fri, 09 March 2007 03:17
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Paolo Grigis on Tue, 13 March 2007 03:24
		Re: Yet again, The Sky is Falling! By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 12 March 2007 16:13

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