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Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored [message #21454 is a reply to message #21391]

Fri, 25 August 2000 00:00

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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"Vinay L. Kashyap" wrote:
>
> In article <MPG.140f7e12fd8ffd61989bf0@news.frii.com>,
> David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not an unknown problem in IDL, but a relatively
>> rare one, given the huge number of functions and variables
>> people create.
>
> That's what makes this feature dangerous. There's such a
> tremendous number of functions floating around that it's
> practically impossible not to have *some* .sav files around
> that inadvertantly match a function name.

I never use .sav files for code since they're not portable across IDL
versions. Besides, recompilation of .pro files doesn't take *that* much
extra time (at least not for my penny ante code :o).

This seems like one of those times when a slight change in one's
"perception anchor" of how things *should* work will allow one to
embrace how things actually *do* work.

paulv

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		IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: kashyap on Thu, 24 August 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: davidf on Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: promashkin on Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: Mark Hadfield on Fri, 25 August 2000 18:36
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: Theo Brauers on Thu, 21 September 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 25 August 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.3 serious problem: save files sneakily restored By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 28 August 2000 16:48

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