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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25771 is a reply to message #25676]

Wed, 11 July 2001 11:08

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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James Kuyper wrote:
>
> Paul van Delst wrote:
> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> Umm, I haven't had my requisite 4 cups of coffee yet this morning so I may be fading in
>> and out here, but if you specify a keyword TIME=something, how is the interpreter supposed
>> to know if you are specifying TIME, TIMEUNIT abrreviated to "TIME", or TIMESTEP
>> abbreviated to "TIME"? My initial fix would be to rename TIME to TIMEVALUE and stick an
>> easy to see comment somewhere in the header warning users about abbreviating these
>> keywords too much.
>
> It would know that TIME cannot be an abbreviated keyword, because it's
> too short to be unique. Therefore, it must be the full keyword.

If I understand you (and Jaco) correctly, what you're saying is:

The abbreviated keyword is too short to be unique, therefore it is.

For some reason this discussion bring Godel's Incompleteness Theorem to mind. I think this
is a case where statements can be neither proved nor disproved.... :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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