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Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts [message #38448 is a reply to message #38394]

Fri, 05 March 2004 15:45

Craig Markwardt
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Paolo Grigis <pgrigis@astro.phys.ethz.ch> writes:
> Dear Craig,
>
> should you ever feel like giving up idl 4, I think you could be
> surprised how many people might volunteer to help you translating
> some code to []-notation!

Dear Paolo--

I admit that I don't use IDL 4 any more. *BUT*, my finger muscles
still know round parenthesis for IDL. It's not a habit I can easily
change.

The behavior you found is frustrating, because IDL should be smarter
than that. In fact, it *was* smarter in the past. IDL 4 and IDL 5.0
had no problems with your example, so there was something that RSI
changed in IDL 5.1 that dumb-ified IDL's recognition of arrays.

Note that even if I put these explicit statements in MPFIT:

limits = 0 & limits(0) = 0

before any other uses, so clearly IDL *should* know that LIMITS is a
variable in this context, IDL 5.1 and above fails to compile.

Truly unfortunate. I would consider changing to square bracket
notation, but it's hard to find time for such a mundane task. Knowing
that I did it right is another issue. I guess I'll try Wayne's
auto-converter at some point soon. And then I have to retrain my
fingers.

Craig

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		arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 03:28
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 05 March 2004 15:45
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 11:34
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 05 March 2004 08:57
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 08:47

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