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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25684 is a reply to message #25683]

Wed, 11 July 2001 02:57

colinr
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On 10 Jul 2001 14:50:08 GMT,
H C Pumphrey <hcp@newsread.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> In article <onn16cvpe1.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>, Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
> |> Not that [IDL's policy on keyword uniqueness] doesn't frustrate the heck
> |> out of me sometimes. There
> |> are many times where 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.
>
> That seems to be what R [1] does already. Apart from this special case, I don't
> see any way around it, not without IDL having a direct link to your
> subconscious so that it can tell which out of TIME, TIMEUNIT and TIMESTEP
> you meant when you said FOO,TI=137 .

What it needs is a syntax to force it to interpret a particular
keyword literally.

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Colin Rosenthal
Astrophysics Institute
University of Oslo

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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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