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arrays vs. functions conflicts [message #38394]

Fri, 05 March 2004 03:28

Paolo Grigis
Messages: 171
Registered: December 2003

Senior Member

Dear IDL experts,

since I was lucky enough to learn IDL after the []-brackets
revolution, the potential conflicts between arrays() and function()
calls never bothered me until I found out about it... then the
nightmares really started. ;-)

Thus my problem:
To resolve the conflict {that is, limits.pro being already
compiled and procedure.pro refusing to compile because it has
an old-fashioned statement like var=limits(1:2) instead of
var=limits[1:2]} I'm thinking of automatically compiling
the (hopefully) few troubling routines like procedure.pro
at startup using the resolve_routine() statement.
(BTW, why is the IDL compiler (5.5) not smart enough to
understand that function(1:2) is an array? ":" is never allowed
in function calls, after all.)

But before going on, I just wanted to know if there is an
easier way ouy of this that I have overlooked (and no, I
definitely do not want to override useful programs written
by others with my own []-version, only to start all over
again each time a new version or bug fix of the routine
comes out).

Greetings,
Paolo

DISCLAIMER: any IDL code, variable names and procedure statements
cited in this message are purely fictional and any resemblance to
real code, variable names and procedure statements, living or dead,
is coincidental.

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		arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paolo Grigis on Fri, 05 March 2004 03:28
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 05 March 2004 15:45
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 11:34
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 05 March 2004 08:57
		Re: arrays vs. functions conflicts By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 March 2004 08:47

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