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Re: Functions and arrays [message #7569 is a reply to message #7566]

Fri, 06 December 1996 00:00

haimov
Messages: 9
Registered: August 1996

Junior Member

In article <584821$mv6@ratatosk.uio.no>, steinhh@amon.uio.no says...

> People at RSI (and not just support people) do read this newsgroup (and
> act on it as well: XPAD/YPAD/SPACE=0 will once again rule, in IDL v 5.0!),
> so this place may very well be the best place for a campaign to remove
> this quite serious (and dangerous) "feature". I do think that we need to
> show some enthusiasm to make it happen, though (i.e., the more people
> agreeing about this being a rather nasty thing that they'd like to see
> removed, the better).

I agree completely that this is a bad "feature". I have had several occasions when this caused
me a significant waste of time.

On the other hand I never had such a problem in MATLAB. Their compiler
uses a precedence to uniquely define occurences of same name functions and variables.
Variables always have precedence. This way I don't need to be very careful when choosing
variable names for as long as I won't need the corresponding functions.
However even with this convention some confusion is possible. So it would be nice if
the compiler can issue warnings of coexisting same name functions/procedures and variables.

Samuel Haimov, Ph.D.
University of Wyoming

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		Re: Functions and arrays By: David R. Klassen on Sat, 07 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: Tim Patterson on Fri, 06 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: haimov on Fri, 06 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: steinhh on Fri, 06 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: greenwoodde on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: William Clodius on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: thompson on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: Mirko Vukovic on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: brian.jackel on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: Anonymous on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: llobet on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: Peter Mason on Thu, 05 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: thompson on Wed, 04 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: steinhh on Wed, 04 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: gunter on Wed, 04 December 1996 00:00
		Re: Functions and arrays By: rigby on Wed, 04 December 1996 00:00

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