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Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts [message #38391 is a reply to message #38390]

Fri, 05 March 2004 05:56

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paolo Grigis writes:

> Thus my problem:
> To resolve the conflict {that is, limits.pro being already
> compiled and procedure.pro refusing to compile because it has
> an old-fashioned statement like var=limits(1:2) instead of
> var=limits[1:2]} I'm thinking of automatically compiling
> the (hopefully) few troubling routines like procedure.pro
> at startup using the resolve_routine() statement.
> (BTW, why is the IDL compiler (5.5) not smart enough to
> understand that function(1:2) is an array? ":" is never allowed
> in function calls, after all.)
>
> But before going on, I just wanted to know if there is an
> easier way ouy of this that I have overlooked.

IDL itself could care less about this issue. So if
you are having problems with it then *you* must
care about it. Does you procedure.pro have a compiler
option that forces strict arrays? Then take it out.
Problem solved. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Wayne Landsman on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:47
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:53
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:44
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:26
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:17
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 07:04
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 05 March 2004 06:54
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 06:54
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 06:39
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 06:37
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 06:22
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 05:56
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 05 March 2004 11:24
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 08:38

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