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Re: Array indexing problem [message #37862 is a reply to message #37858]

Wed, 28 January 2004 14:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Michael Wallace writes:

> Could you elaborate on the "enormously appreciated" part of your
> statement? Maybe I'm not thinking in the "IDL Way," but I would not
> have expected the result IDL gives. It may very well be explained in
> the manuals, but why is such a "feature" "enormously appreciated?"

I can't remember. :-)

I do remember the first time I pointed this "bug"
out on the IDL newsgroup years and years ago and
how mortified I was when Ray Sterner publicly
pointed out what a GREAT and USEFUL thing it was.
(In those days Ray was the word on the IDL newsgroup.)

In fact, it may have been this fiasco that caused
Dave Stern to send around that memo forbidding RSI
employees from posting on the newsgroup.

Odd that in 17 years of programming I've never run
across the need for this. But there you go. An historical
perspective.

Maybe we can hear from someone who uses it.

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I've never bothered to sing much
either after my 7th grade music teacher in a fit of pique
told me I had a "two note range". Funny what power those
formative experiences have on you. :-)

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		Re: Array indexing problem By: kashyap on Thu, 29 January 2004 15:21
		Re: Array indexing problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 January 2004 09:58
		Re: Array indexing problem By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 29 January 2004 09:43
		Re: Array indexing problem By: roberson_1 on Thu, 29 January 2004 09:03
		Re: Array indexing problem By: hunter on Wed, 28 January 2004 13:43
		Re: Array indexing problem By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 28 January 2004 16:55
		Re: Array indexing problem By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 January 2004 14:40
		Re: Array indexing problem By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 28 January 2004 14:28
		Re: Array indexing problem By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 28 January 2004 14:23
		Re: Array indexing problem By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 28 January 2004 14:11
		Re: Array indexing problem By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 January 2004 13:34

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