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Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST [message #82585 is a reply to message #82525]

Thu, 20 December 2012 09:08

David Fanning
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Chris Torrence writes:

> Yes, using some sort of object is a possibility.
>
> But, not to throw out a bombshell, but... what if we were to change !C to be the constant? It's currently used for some very old (stupid) purpose like holding the min/max index from the last call to min/max.
>
> Does anyone have any code that relies on this?!

God help the boys at NASA who are still running IDL 1.0
on some of their machines! But, yes, I'm all in favor of
using !C as the constant system variable. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 18 December 2012 14:34
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Jeremy Bailin on Sun, 23 December 2012 20:21
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 21 December 2012 16:19
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 December 2012 12:59
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 20 December 2012 12:31
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 20 December 2012 11:10
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: PMan on Thu, 20 December 2012 10:41
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 20 December 2012 09:36
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 December 2012 09:08
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 20 December 2012 09:02
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: ben.bighair on Thu, 20 December 2012 07:03
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: wlandsman on Thu, 20 December 2012 06:24
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 19 December 2012 21:37
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 19 December 2012 20:43
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: jeffnettles4870 on Wed, 19 December 2012 19:36
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Russell Ryan on Wed, 19 December 2012 19:07
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: vlk.astro on Wed, 26 December 2012 12:31
		Re: Physical constants in IDL with !CONST By: Mats Löfdahl on Mon, 24 December 2012 01:37

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