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Re: Another small V8.0 bug [message #71881 is a reply to message #71877]

Mon, 26 July 2010 11:53

penteado
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On Jul 26, 3:44 pm, wlandsman <wlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
> which tells me right away that I am calling a function named OBJ_NEW()
> rather than subscripting an array. But I don't believe that a =
> list( foo) will ever give an error, and it is only when trying to use
> the variable that one will encounter the (less obvious) error.

Indeed. Particularly so given the introduction of !null and that lists
can (and frequently need to) have !null elements, so even giving
list() an undefined variable is not an error:

IDL> a=list(some_undefined_name)
IDL> help,a
A LIST <ID=1 NELEMENTS=1>
IDL> print,a
!NULL

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		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Tue, 27 July 2010 08:33
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 27 July 2010 07:39
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: Juggernaut on Tue, 27 July 2010 04:47
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: Chris[6] on Mon, 26 July 2010 14:53
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 26 July 2010 12:31
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:53
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: wlandsman on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:44
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:24
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:16
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: wlandsman on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:15
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:11
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: wlandsman on Mon, 26 July 2010 11:04
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: penteado on Mon, 26 July 2010 10:59
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: JDS on Wed, 28 July 2010 14:53
		Re: Another small V8.0 bug By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 27 July 2010 11:33

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