| Re: RSI's priorities [message #13551 is a reply to message #13448] |
Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00   |
David Ritscher
Messages: 30
Registered: August 1995
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It seems like a simple way to solve the problem of the breaking of
old routines would be to add an IDL and PV-Wave functionality of
internal version control. There would be a variable called either
from MAIN or from within a routine, similar to the on_error command,
of a form:
version_functionality, 'IDL 5.1' or
version_functionality, 'Wave 6.0'
This would cause the interpreter to execute all commands according to
the functionality of that release.
This would mean a bit more internal overhead within IDL and PV-Wave,
but would mean something I wrote would always continue to work, and it
would also mean these firms could get much more adventurous with future
developments without worrying about losing their old customers.
They could even make radical paradigm shifts, for example, make
for i=0, 40000 do print,i
print something on the screen :-)
Even though changing this old faithful friend would break many of our
old programs.
David Ritscher
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Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
B168 Volker Hall - 1670 University Boulevard
Birmingham AL 35294-0019
Tel: (205) 975-2122 Fax: (205) 975-4720
Email: davidNO.ritscherSPAM@bigfoot.com
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