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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25683 is a reply to message #25680]

Wed, 11 July 2001 04:11

Jaco van Gorkom
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Paul van Delst wrote:
> Jaco van Gorkom wrote:
>> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>>> "Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec-nospam.wisc.edu> writes:
>>>> Colin Rosenthal wrote:
>>>> > ... to have a keyword AXISCOLOR in a routine that also accepts
>>>> > the AX keyword. ...
>>>> ...
>>>> "Keywords can be abbreviated to their shortest unique length"
>>>>
>>>> In your case, the keyword AX precludes the use of another keyword which
>>>> begins with the letters "AX". ...
>>>
>>> ... I want keywords like TIME, TIMEUNIT, TIMESTEP,
>>> and so on. My suggestion is that the above policy should hold,
>>> *unless* there is an exact match to a specific keyword.

On second reading, the documentation ("IDL> ? abbreviating keywords") exactly
describes Craig's suggestion. The full keyword TIME cannot be abbreviated to a
shorter unique length, whereas TIMESTEP can be abbreviated to the shortest
unique lenght TIMES. Nowhere in the documentation can I find the behaviour that
the keyword TIME may not be used, simply because... because... well, for no reason
at all actually. So I would consider this to be a bug, not a policy.

> 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.

I fully agree, *if* you are referring to the general (over-)use of keyword abbreviation.

> The current set up does not allow this.

Yes it does. That's what keyword abbreviation is all about.

>> 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)

:-) . `Feature request' was the wrong wording. I should have said `bug report'.
Paul, would you take the honours? :-)

Cheers,
Jaco

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Jaco van Gorkom gorkom@rijnh.nl
FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica `Rijnhuizen', The Netherlands

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		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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