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Re: Specification for a new array slicing function [message #15577 is a reply to message #15437]

Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Liam Gumley wrote:
>
> Please find below a suggested specification for a new array slicing
> function, formatted as a standard IDL prolog. The intention here is to
> provide a means to extract n-dimensional array 'slices' from an existing
> array in memory. The caller can choose to skip elements along any or all
> dimensions if desired.
>
> Comments are invited. There's no code yet, so now is the time.
>
> Cheers,
> Liam.
>
> [header snipped]

Nice plan, Liam!

Only that it interferes what I would call "slicing", i.e. extraction of
an N-1 dimensional hypersurface from an N dimensional array. Why not
"array_extract"?

Regards,
Martin.

PS: thanks for your mails.

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		Specification for a new array slicing function By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 19 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: bowman on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Jack Saba on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: steinhh on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Struan Gray on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00
		Re: Specification for a new array slicing function By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00

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