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Re: IDL8.4 hard crash [message #90299 is a reply to message #90297]

Wed, 18 February 2015 13:18

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On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 1:55:39 PM UTC-7, bill...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 3:37:46 PM UTC-5, JDS wrote:
>> Try:
>>
>> IDL> a=hash() & c=(a['b']=hash())
>>
>> I believe auto-instantiation would make HASH/DICT/etc. much more useful. I.e. I ought to be able to say:
>>
>> IDL> a=hash() & a['b','c']='test'
>>
>> and have a['b'] auto-initialized as an empty hash.
>>
>> JD
>
> Crashes on OSx 10.9.5, on RHEL 6.6 gives:
> % Key must be a scalar string or number.
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$

The crash is fixed in IDL 8.4.1. Thanks for reporting it!
-Chris
p.s. I can't quite wrap my head around how the auto-instantiation would work. More examples?

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		IDL8.4 hard crash By: JDS on Wed, 18 February 2015 12:37
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: bill.dman on Wed, 18 February 2015 12:55
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 18 February 2015 13:18
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: JDS on Wed, 18 February 2015 13:47
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 18 February 2015 14:18
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: Fabzi on Thu, 19 February 2015 00:22
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 19 February 2015 06:40
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: Fabzi on Thu, 19 February 2015 07:19
		Hash auto-instantiation (was IDL8.4 hard crash) By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 19 February 2015 10:28
		Re: IDL8.4 hard crash By: Fabzi on Wed, 18 February 2015 14:21

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