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Re: A small feature I would love to have for IDL NG [message #84543]

Thu, 06 June 2013 11:07

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:32:59 AM UTC-6, Xin Tao wrote:
> I think it would be great if I could just type plot(x,y) instead of !null=plot(x,y) to get a quick plot of x-y. I don't know how many people here agree with me, but typing !null everytime I don't care about the return value is just too much work.
>

Hi Xin,

I'm all over this. In fact, I'd like any function FOO to be callable with either:

IDL> a = foo()

or

IDL> foo()

In the latter case, the return value is swallowed.

I'm still working on getting buy-in for this, though.

mp

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		Re: A small feature I would love to have for IDL NG By: Mark Piper on Thu, 06 June 2013 11:07
		Re: A small feature I would love to have for IDL NG By: David Fanning on Thu, 06 June 2013 04:23
		Re: A small feature I would love to have for IDL NG By: m_schellens on Thu, 06 June 2013 02:53
		Re: A small feature I would love to have for IDL NG By: Xin Tao on Wed, 05 June 2013 23:35

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