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Re: delvar [message #14317 is a reply to message #14262]

Tue, 09 February 1999 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Alex Schuster <alex@rosa.mpin-koeln.mpg.de> writes:

> Dominic Zarro wrote:

>> The following may not guarantee that a variable
>> is permanently deleted from IDL memory, but it
>> is useful for undefining the variable:
>>
>> IDL> a = temporary(a)

> Um, you didn't actually try this, did you? ;-)

I think that what Dominic was trying to say here was that if you wrote a simple
routine along the lines

pro delete_variable, variable
dummy = temporary(variable)
end

you could then delete a variable by saying

delete_variable, a

I know that we've been doing that for a while now, using a similar procedure
that Dominic wrote. I don't know how this would work with pointer variables,
but it sounds like Dominic's on top of that, too.

Bill Thompson

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		delvar By: Dave Brennan on Thu, 04 February 1999 00:00
		Re: delvar By: thompson on Tue, 09 February 1999 00:00
		Re: delvar By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 09 February 1999 00:00
		Re: delvar By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 09 February 1999 00:00
		Re: delvar By: steinhh on Tue, 09 February 1999 00:00
		Re: delvar By: Dominic Zarro on Mon, 08 February 1999 00:00

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