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Re: Unhelpful Help Messages [message #67806 is a reply to message #67802]

Thu, 27 August 2009 17:57

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Aug 26, 6:22 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Having spent more time this week than I wanted to learning
> that "too many array elements" really means "you are
> *totally* confusing me with that binsize that isn't
> really a number", I thought I might work on an article
> this weekend on "Unhelpful Help Messages".
>
> This could be one of those articles that grows over time,
> but I thought I might ask if anyone else has a favorite
> Unhelpful Help Message they would like to share. Another
> one I deal with on an almost weekly basis is a "syntax
> error" when someone hasn't put the Coyote Library on their
> IDL path correctly. This one particularly confuses new
> users.
>
> Any others?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

This is one that makes sense to me, but is probably the top confused
question I get from people:

% Loop limit expression too large for loop variable type.

(e.g. "for i=0,500000" instead of "for i=0L,500000")

-Jeremy.

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		Re: Unhelpful Help Messages By: Jeremy Bailin on Thu, 27 August 2009 17:57
		Re: Unhelpful Help Messages By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 27 August 2009 06:58
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