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Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! [message #72923 is a reply to message #72922]

Mon, 18 October 2010 09:28

mankoff
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On Oct 18, 8:14 am, Michael Galloy <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/10 7:49 am, David Fanning wrote:
>
>
>
>> Folks,
>
>> In fooling around with some new graphics plots this
>> morning I discovered an amazing new feature. The
>> graphics routines are *amazingly* tolerant of
>> clumsy spelling!
>
>> Look at this:
>
>> IDL> p = Plot(Findgen(11), /ASPICT_RATIO, AXSI_SYTLE=1, $
>> /XXXLOG, TITIE='Smart Plot!')
>
>> Not a peep out of it! This is wonderful. No one I know
>> can type anyway. Now we don't have to worry about it!
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> David
>
>> P.S. I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend my
>> time debugging programs than almost anything else.
>> These objects are a god-send! :-)
>
> This is the same issue that the iTools have with keywords. While this
> was one of many serious issues with the iTools' command line interface,
> it definitely sticks out more with new graphics. Silently ignoring
> errors is an extremely bad response!
>
> Mike
> --www.michaelgalloy.com
> Research Mathematician
> Tech-X Corporation

Isn't this a required side effect of _EXTRA=e?

-k.

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		Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 October 2010 09:35
		Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! By: mankoff on Mon, 18 October 2010 09:28
		Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 18 October 2010 08:14
		Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 October 2010 08:08
		Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 18 October 2010 07:54

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