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Re: Another IDL Doc Question [message #78937 is a reply to message #78861]

Sat, 07 January 2012 14:07

Michael Galloy
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On 1/5/12 4:31 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>
>> Here is another clue. At the top of the documentation that
>> *is* produced, there is a notation on this file that is
>> not present in other files. It says: "Contains a main-level
>> program."
>>
>> This is not true. The program does NOT contain a main-level
>> program. I suppose all might be right if I could figure out
>> why it thinks it does. :-(
>
> OK, problem solved!
>
> There is a module in this file that I didn't write. If has inside
> the module a WHILE loop written like this:
>
> WHILE t lt 5 DO BEGIN t = t * 10& ipow = ipow +1& ENDWHILE
>
> When I write the WHILE loop like this, all documentation
> works as expected!
>
> WHILE t lt 5 DO BEGIN
> t = t * 10& ipow = ipow +1
> ENDWHILE
>
> Who woulda known!?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

IDLdoc does count matching begin-ends and the &'s must have thrown it
off. I will look into it.

Mike
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