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Re: Dropped dimensions? [message #80611 is a reply to message #14805]

Thu, 28 June 2012 12:16

MarioIncandenza
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On Sunday, March 28, 1999 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, Craig Markwardt wrote:

> For RSI:
> * REFORM should operate on scalars too.
> * TOTAL should ignore missing final dimensions, since those dimensions
> can be dropped.
> * Dimensions should not be dropped! I do appreciate when that happens
> sometimes, but it usually happens at random and dangerous moments.
> I would like to have explicit control over when it happens. Something
> like a RELAX procedure which "relaxes" unneeded final dimensions.

Has the behavior of IDL w/r/t silently REFORMing away dimensions changed in the last 13 years? Have any clever solutions emerged where I do not need to use an IF(N_DIM eq 1) for operations where N_DIM might sometimes be 1? Just checking.

--Edward H.

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		Dropped dimensions? By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 28 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Dropped dimensions? By: wlandsman on Thu, 28 June 2012 13:07
		Re: Dropped dimensions? By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 30 June 2012 22:51
		Re: Dropped dimensions? By: wlandsman on Thu, 28 June 2012 12:45
		Re: Dropped dimensions? By: MarioIncandenza on Thu, 28 June 2012 12:16
		Re: Dropped dimensions? By: lecacheux.alain on Sun, 01 July 2012 00:43

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