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Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 [message #73002 is a reply to message #72910]

Tue, 19 October 2010 11:51

David Fanning
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Paul van Delst writes:

> I'm sorry.... "one-offs"? I associate that term with throwaway code.
So, two things immediately spring to mind:
> 1) does anyone really write "one-offs" anymore? :o)
> 2) If they truly are "one-offs", what the hell are you doing worrying about error handling? Just use
> ON_ERROR, 0 !!

Well, because of how much pressure I was feeling to
produce a result TODAY, I sometimes wrote what I thought
were one-offs. After that bit me in the rear about
a dozen times, I didn't care HOW LONG it took to write
the code, it would be reusable. I got a reputation as
a slow programmer (at least the first time they wanted
something done). After that, I was MUCH faster.
Reminds me a bit of IDL, in that respect. :-)

I guess what I really mean is "casual code", code
that is not really meant to be Library code, but
code that is useful to me, nonetheless. Maybe it's
code where I am exploring some kind of idea or
approach to the problem. I'm not really interested
in typing Catch paragraphs, but I do what to get
meaningful error messages.

> But, regardless, I will ask my colleague if he has his perl script
> lying around (since I can't find it in our svn repo).

Appreciate it!

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 October 2010 08:16
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: Axel Martínez on Wed, 20 October 2010 02:58
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: penteado on Tue, 19 October 2010 12:13
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: penteado on Tue, 19 October 2010 12:09
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 October 2010 11:51
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 19 October 2010 11:31
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 October 2010 10:27
		Re: Error Handling Change in IDL 8 By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 19 October 2010 09:35

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