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Re: New Graphics Tolerant of Clumsy Fingers! [message #72929 is a reply to message #72923]

Mon, 18 October 2010 08:14

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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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
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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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