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Re: IDL8.4 hard crash [message #90302 is a reply to message #90299]

Wed, 18 February 2015 13:47

JDS
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Registered: March 2009

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> The crash is fixed in IDL 8.4.1. Thanks for reporting it!
> -Chris

Thanks.

> p.s. I can't quite wrap my head around how the auto-instantiation would work. More examples?

If you are constructing some nested HASH structure, now you must say:

a=hash()
a['key']=hash()
a['key','sub1']=hash()
a['key','sub1','sub2']=hash()
a['key','sub1','sub2','value']=1.0

This might more typically occur inside a loop pulling keys and values from various locations. This is also by the way why I was using a=hash() & c=(a['b']=hash()) -- to make this sort of construction slightly less painful.

Auto-instantiation means that any hash key which references an undefined value *on assignment* will cause that value to be initialized as a HASH object instead of just saying "key does not exist" and aborting. If that were in place, the above would simply be:

a=hash()
a['key','sub1','sub2','value']=1.0

This comes up quite a bit when attempting to populate deeply nested HASH structures. You end up with code sprinkled with lots of useless tests like:

if ~a[key1].hasKey(key2) then a[key1,key2]=hash()

With auto-instantiation, these statements would be implicit. It also would make Perl programmers happy ;).

Thanks again,

JD

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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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