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Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 [message #73329 is a reply to message #72898]

Tue, 02 November 2010 17:05

penteado
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On Nov 1, 3:17 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 1:30 pm, Chris Torrence <gorth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.
>
>> Back to your original thread - if we added this way of subscripting,
>> does that eliminate the need to convert a list to/from a pointer
>> array? I'd rather not add more functionality if we don't have to.
>
> It would decrease the need, but not eliminate it. One use that I can
> remember now is to handle arrays to/from code that uses pointers,
> which before 8.0 were needed in a lot more situations. I am already
> adding those conversions to the class I am writing to provide the new
> overloadbrackets methods. I will post it here when it gets ready.

There is also the independent need of a no_copy keyword for
hash::tostruct(), list::toarray(), and hash::init(). For hash::init()
one can get around the lack of no_copy with temporary(). But for
toarray and tostruct, there is no way to use them without making a
copy.

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		Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Tue, 12 October 2010 14:35
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 01 November 2010 08:30
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Mon, 01 November 2010 10:17
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: Bob[4] on Thu, 04 November 2010 11:29
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Tue, 02 November 2010 17:05
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Thu, 04 November 2010 16:40
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: JDS on Sat, 06 November 2010 12:03
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: JDS on Thu, 04 November 2010 16:29
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Thu, 04 November 2010 15:28
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Sat, 06 November 2010 14:51
		Re: Still missing features in IDL 8 By: penteado on Tue, 09 November 2010 17:41

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