| Re: TeXtoIDL fix for IDL 5.3 [message #19025 is a reply to message #18935] |
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marc schellens[1]
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William Thompson wrote:
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> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:
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>> Randall Smith <rsmith@kracko.harvard.edu> wrote in message
>> news:owemabj2db.fsf@kracko.harvard.edu...
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>>> Anyway, it turns out that RSI, in a fit of what can only be described
>>> as morally degenerate programming, added a new function (strtok) to
>>> the language, although they _didn't_ see fit to document this (it's
>>> apparently part of the new string routines stregex, strjoin, strmatch,
>>> and strsplit that are in IDL 5.3).
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>> It's even more irritatingly trivial than that. They added strtok, then
>> decided to call it strsplit, but instead of renaming it they wrote strsplit
>> as a wrapper. Strsplit's code, in its entirety, is:
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>> function strsplit, string, pattern, _ref_extra=extra
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>> if (n_params() eq 1) then return, strtok(string, _extra=extra) $
>> else return, strtok(string, pattern, _extra=extra)
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>> end
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> That's because people complained that there was already a long-standing routine
> in the IDL Astronomy Library called strsplit, so RSI renamed it strtok.
> However, because they had already advertised that they were adding strsplit,
> they provided this wrapper. Now people are complaining about strtok. I guess
> you just can't win. ;^)
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> William Thompson
I think the problem here is, that they didn't document it.
Greetings,
:-) marc
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