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Thu, 24 March 2016 08:21

wlandsman
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Registered: June 2000

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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

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Re: IDL Poetry [message #92923 is a reply to message #92922]

Thu, 24 March 2016 08:25

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On 3/24/16 9:21 am, 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
>

"Poetry" might be an ambitious claim.

Mike
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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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Re: IDL Poetry [message #92940 is a reply to message #92938]

Wed, 30 March 2016 14:40

Lajos Foldy
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Registered: December 2011

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On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 10:33:19 PM UTC+2, Fabien wrote:

> 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 ;-)

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

Even less typing :-)

regards,
Lajos

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Re: IDL Poetry [message #92942 is a reply to message #92940]

Thu, 31 March 2016 03:56

Fabzi
Messages: 305
Registered: July 2010

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On 03/30/2016 11:40 PM, fawltylanguage@gmail.com wrote:
> IDL> l = list([1,2,3], 'test')
> IDL> l[0,1]
> 2
>
> Even less typing:-)
>
> regards,
> Lajos

Ah! I always forget about this one. Maybe because it looks funny:

IDL> l = list(hash('a', 1), 'test')
IDL> l[0, 'a']
1

Thanks for reminding me ;)

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