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Re: IDL 8.4? [message #89427 is a reply to message #89423]

Wed, 15 October 2014 09:03

Fabzi
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Registered: July 2010

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On 15.10.2014 16:55, rryan%stsci.edu@gtempaccount.com wrote:
> I stumbled onto the "Whats's New in 8.4" page this morning...
>
> http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/WhatsNew.html

Thanks for the link! Indeed very pythonic... I personally think these
are great improvements.

> (1) what is this lambda-inline function business?

I'm not sure about these lambda functions. In python a lot of stuff is
based on iterators and in this case I understand why it's useful, but in
IDL I dunnow...

> (2) they're adding static methods to all variables?

obj_destroy is "obsolete" since IDL8. I personally think these methods
make code MUCH funnier to write and easy to read than the cumbersome use
of SIZE(). Which operator overloading, this will encourage versatile
code based on duck typing.
I don't really understand the problem of backward compatibility you
mention, since this has always been like this for each IDL version. One
can still write code without list() and hash(), but then what's the
point of buying IDL8?

More generally, do you think that Exelis should invest more time
somewhere else? Sure, they could develop new tools for the standard
library but they will never be able to compete with python's huge user
base, so I think that it's great that they make the language more
flexible and funny to code with.

Fabien

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		IDL 8.4? By: rryan%stsci.edu on Wed, 15 October 2014 07:55
		Re: IDL 8.4? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 15 October 2014 09:01
		Re: IDL 8.4? By: Fabzi on Wed, 15 October 2014 09:03
		Re: IDL 8.4? By: rryan%stsci.edu on Wed, 15 October 2014 09:44
		Re: IDL 8.4? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 15 October 2014 10:01

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