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Re: IDL Anon Structs [message #4277 is a reply to message #4264]

Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00

velt
Messages: 19
Registered: June 1994

Junior Member

Before you start messing up your User's manual, look at this:

IDL. Version 3.5.1 (sunos sparc).
IDL> w = {a: 0, b: 1}
IDL> x = {w: w, c: 2}
% Structures can't have anonymous structure members
% Execution halted at $MAIN$ .

Robert Velthuizen (velt@rad.usf.edu),
Digital Medical Imaging Program of the
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the
University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33612.

In article <3pe065$i71@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, wart@chop.ugcs.caltech.edu (Wart) writes:
> Interesting note about anonymous structures:
>
> p. 7-1 of the IDL User's Manual states: "Anonymous Structures cannot
> contain other anonymous structures."
>
> However... try this:
>
> IDL> w = {a: 0, b: 1}
> IDL> x = {w: w, c: 2}
> IDL> help, w
> W STRUCT = -> <Anonymous> Array(1)
> IDL> help, x
> X STRUCT = -> <Anonymous> Array(1)
> IDL> help, x.w
> <Expression> STRUCT = -> <Anonymous> Array(1)
>
> As one of my grade school teachers used to tell us whenever there was an
> error in a text: "Take out your pencils and cross out that sentence in
> your textbook."
>
> --Wart

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		Re: IDL Anon Structs By: chase on Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
		Re: IDL Anon Structs By: thompson on Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
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		Re: IDL Anon Structs By: rivers on Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
		Re: IDL Anon Structs By: patterso on Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
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