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Re: Function with something like [2:*] as input [message #87146 is a reply to message #87145]

Fri, 10 January 2014 07:39

David Fanning
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Chris Torrence writes:

> If you really wanted to get fancy, and you have IDL 8.0 or later, you could use operator overloading. You could create an object class that is a subclass of IDL_Object, and then implement the _overloadBracketsRightSide method. Then you could do things like:
>
> myfunc = MyFunctionClass()
> a = myfunc[1:3] ; looks just like array indexing!
>
> See the examples at:
> http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/Overloading_the_Array_In.html

Right. I was going to mention that just after I explained the value of
using positional and keyword parameters. ;-)

Cheers,

David
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		Function with something like [2:*] as input By: andry on Thu, 09 January 2014 12:06
		Re: Function with something like [2:*] as input By: Matthew Argall on Thu, 09 January 2014 12:57
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		Re: Function with something like [2:*] as input By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 10 January 2014 07:28
		Re: Function with something like [2:*] as input By: David Fanning on Fri, 10 January 2014 07:39

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