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Re: strictarrsubs in IDL 8.1 [message #84533 is a reply to message #84299]

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:30

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On 5/17/13 7:17 PM, kdpenner@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, May 17, 2013 3:50:39 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I have the following in my .idlstartup:
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>> compile_opt strictarrsubs
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> Grr. WHERE returns an array when the condition is met, and when it's not, it returns -1 as an integer. strictarrsubs only catches bad subscripts when passed in arrays, not integers.
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> How unpleasant.
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>> However, I can subscript arrays in 8.1 with [-1], for instance. If I remember correctly, the compile_opt statement in earlier versions of IDL meant I would get an error for a [-1] subscript. Am I misremembering, or has something changed?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Kyle
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That's because for-reasons-that-still-baffle-me, subscripting with a
scalar negative index has a new legitimate meaning in IDL8 (counting
from the end instead).

-Jeremy.

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