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Re: Unhelpful Help Messages [message #67834 is a reply to message #67824]

Wed, 26 August 2009 16:57

wlandsman
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On Aug 26, 6:22 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:

> 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.

I am often momentarily confused when I run a procedure where the
procedure name and file name differ. For example, if my file
"test.pro" contains

pro newtest
print,'hello world'
return
end

and then I run it

IDL> test
% Compiled module: TEST.
% Attempt to call undefined procedure/function: 'TEST'.
% Execution halted at: $MAIN$

which makes it seem like procedure "test" has been successfully
compiled, but procedure "test" doesn't exist.

(I suppose the IDL error message is technically correct that the
*module* 'test' does exist but the procedure/function 'test' does
not. )

--Wayne

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