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Re: IDL Poetry [message #92938 is a reply to message #92922]

Wed, 30 March 2016 13:33

Fabzi
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Registered: July 2010

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On 03/24/2016 04:21 PM, wlandsman wrote:
> I had a big smile reading Mike Galloy's "Tao of IDL" blog post this morning.
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/2016/03/22/philosophy-of-idl.html
>

Haha, great one, thanks!! When I read:

> Backwards compatibility is great!
> But it doesn’t mean you should index arrays with parentheses forever.

I had to think of that one:

IDL> l = list([1,2,3], 'test')
IDL> l[0][1]

l[0][1]
^
% Syntax error.

Here I would welcome the loss of backwards compatibility ;-)

Cheers,

Fabien

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		IDL Poetry By: wlandsman on Thu, 24 March 2016 08:21
		Re: IDL Poetry By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 24 March 2016 08:25
		Re: IDL Poetry By: Fabzi on Wed, 30 March 2016 13:33
		Re: IDL Poetry By: Lajos Foldy on Wed, 30 March 2016 14:40
		Re: IDL Poetry By: Fabzi on Thu, 31 March 2016 03:56

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