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Re: CASE statement [message #27048 is a reply to message #26552]

Fri, 05 October 2001 14:08

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
>
> Timm Weitkamp wrote:
>>
>> It actually also has some counterintuitive features. This one, for
>> example:
>>
>> IDL> PRINT, KEYWORD_SET([0])
>> 1
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but the PURPOSE of KEYWORD_SET is to check if
> a KEYWORD is SET. Settable keywords are those that you either set or
> don't, either /K_SET or K_SET=0. As such, they should not be set to
> arrays. As far as I can see, Keyword_Set is a convenience function. For
> value passing keywords, N_elements should be used.
> So, it looks to me that the name of this function means exactly what it
> is designed for.

Excellent point.

paulv

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		CASE statement By: K Banerjee on Fri, 07 September 2001 13:17
		Re: CASE statement By: R.Bauer on Wed, 03 October 2001 23:51
		Re: CASE statement By: weitkamp on Fri, 05 October 2001 11:44
		Re: CASE statement By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 October 2001 12:02
		Re: CASE statement By: george.mccabe on Fri, 05 October 2001 09:25
		Re: CASE statement By: David Fanning on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:55
		Re: CASE statement By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:27
		Re: CASE statement By: R.Bauer on Mon, 08 October 2001 00:19
		Re: CASE statement By: weitkamp on Sat, 06 October 2001 03:01
		Re: CASE statement By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 05 October 2001 14:08
		Re: CASE statement By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 05 October 2001 12:03

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