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Re: using of EXECUTE??? [message #7436 is a reply to message #7370]

Tue, 12 November 1996 00:00

Christian Soeller
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Registered: August 1996

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Peter Mason <peterm@demsyd.syd.dem.csiro.au> writes:

> In your example above, the only extra facility that EXECUTE gives you which
> you wouldn't get by simply doing SOME_VARNAME=FINDGEN(DIM_OF_ARRAY) is
> indirect specification of the array's name. I think that this is really a
> disadvantage - your program would always have to go via EXECUTE('some op
> referencing name_of_array') to USE this new array, as it would only know the
> array's name indirectly.

I strongly support Peter's comment. It is not clear to me what you really
gain by doing variable creation like this. The approach somehow seems to
be inspired by a C-like malloc idea which doesn't sound like such a great
idea within IDL. So I am still waiting for the great example which demonstrates
the big advantage of doing a findgen via execute?

Regards,

Christian

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		using of EXECUTE??? By: alpha on Fri, 08 November 1996 00:00
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		Re: using of EXECUTE??? By: peter on Tue, 12 November 1996 00:00
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