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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25701 is a reply to message #25700]

Tue, 10 July 2001 06:53

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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Colin Rosenthal wrote:
>
> pro stupid,a=a,a1=a1
>
> print,'a=',a
> print,'a1=',a1
>
> end
>
> IDL> stupid,a=1,a1=2
> % Ambiguous keyword abbreviation: A.
>
> so is there a sensible way around this? What I'm actually trying to
> do is to have a keyword AXISCOLOR in a routine that also accepts
> the AX keyword. I know I could call it something different but am I
> just being a whiny luser if I think the above code should work
> as is?

Colin,

According to the IDL documentation:

"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". A good rule of thumb is to make the first
3 characters of each keyword unique.

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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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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