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Re: Function Makes Unexpected Appearance [message #65568 is a reply to message #65517]

Sun, 08 March 2009 13:51

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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ed.schmahl@gmail.com writes:

> David must have written this after a few beers, I thought, when I went
> to the link provided, and
> read interesting stuff about Black Holes and the Three-Body program.
> "But what the heck does this
> have to do with the STRUCT_ASSIGN procedure?" So I checked out the
> docs on STRUCT_ASSIGN. Cool program! Might even be useful, but I was
> to tired to think about the relation to black holes and the "wierd
> constant" of the 3-body problem, and went to bed.
>
> About an hour later I woke up out of a sound sleep (David's messages
> can have this effect -- be warned), inadvertently awakening my gently
> snoring wife, and said to myself, "That's what David meant!'
>
> BlackHole=3D{a:randomn(10),wierd_constant:3.1415271818}
> ThreeBody=3D{b:randomn(5),wierd_constant:3.1415271818}
> STRUCT_ASSIGN, /VERBOSE, BlackHole,ThreeBody
> print,ThreeBody,format='(2F15.10)'
>
> Ed Schmahl,
> New member of STRUCT_ASSIGN FANS ANONYMOUS

Thank goodness. I *knew* I meant something, but I was having
a devil of a time remembering what it was! :-)

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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