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C syntax for IDL [message #7589]

Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00

martin
Messages: 18
Registered: January 1993

Junior Member

I program mostly in IDL, but every once and a while I program in C. I find
the switch to be unnecessarily painful. What I would really like is an
alternative syntax for IDL that would be C-like. For example:

for i=0,10 do begin
x(i)=i
endfor

Could become

for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
x[i]=i
}

It seems like the mapping from one syntax to the other is pretty straight
forward. You could put a command at the beginning of each program to tell
it which interpretter to use.

This alternative syntax would be helpful to me in 2 ways. First, it would
help me keep my C programing skills alive. Second, it would help me
recruit the assistance of C programmers here where I work.

This would also solve that function-array ambiguity that everyone else is
talking about.

Charles Martin
University of Texas

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		C syntax for IDL By: martin on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: C syntax for IDL By: David Fenyes on Wed, 11 December 1996 00:00
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