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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25680 is a reply to message #25679]

Wed, 11 July 2001 07:03

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
> Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> writes:
>
>> It will make code harder to read and understand. Once you give your
>> code to others, they may use it in other code with abbreviated
>> keywords and not enough comments as to what they are doing. The
>> current set up does not allow this.
>>
>> Therefore it is A Good Thing. :o)
>>
>>> So who is frustrated enough to put in a feature
>>> request with RSI (/VNI?) for this, for the benefit of us all?
>>
>> I wonder if there is a way for me to write a little Perl script to
>> automatically send in a Feature Un-Request whenever this Feature
>> Request is emailed to RSI...... :o)
>
> If that really is the RSI policy, then they should make it an error to
> compile a procedure with ambiguous keywords.

I agree with you absolutely. But isn't that one of the idiosyncracies that c.l.i-p readers
find endearing about IDL? :o)

paulv

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[Message index]

		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 09:36
		Re: Am I stupid? By: James Kuyper on Wed, 11 July 2001 09:48
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 11:08
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:47
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:21
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 11 July 2001 07:03
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 04:11
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Wed, 11 July 2001 02:57
		Re: Am I stupid? By: colinr on Wed, 11 July 2001 02:56
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 10 July 2001 18:21
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 10 July 2001 09:37
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Tue, 10 July 2001 08:23
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Bob Crawford on Tue, 10 July 2001 08:03
		Re: Am I stupid? By: hcp on Tue, 10 July 2001 07:50
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 10 July 2001 07:18
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 10 July 2001 06:53
		Re: Am I stupid? By: thompson on Wed, 11 July 2001 14:02
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 10:01

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