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Time to Fish or Cut Bait [message #74711]

Tue, 01 February 2011 11:55

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

OK, after writing for three days about how this new
Coyote Graphics System works, I find myself on the
horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, this whole
resizeable graphics thing is so nice, I'm probably
never going to use anything else. And there is likely
to be one or two others, whose sysadmin people are so
mean they will never upgrade to IDL 8, who will join me.

On the other hand, it is getting to be a real pain
to type "FSC_This" and "FSC_That". Very awkward.

I am *seriously* considering changing all "FSC_"
prefixes, on *all* my Coyote Graphics routines
to "cg" with no underscore. In other words:

FSC_Contour -> cgContour
FSC_Colorbar -> cgColorbar

I have to make a decision, because in about two days
it will be WAY too late for any of this.

I have thought about this, too. Leave them named
the way they are, but provide a package of
synonyms, maybe just a single program that you call
once in your startup file and now you can call these
programs using shorter names. This would give
everyone the ability to use whatever synonym their
fingers were happy to type. I haven't explored all
the ramifications of this, because some of these
routines have output keywords and I have to be sure
I can get these into and out of programs properly.

One problem I see with this solution is that I've just
commandeered two different name spaces.

Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about this?

Maybe it's a moot point because I'm the only one
who is going to use the darn things, so I can call
them whatever I want to. But when I find myself writing
programs like this, which I just wrote about 10 minutes
ago, I figure there is a problem somewhere. :-(

PRO wsho, wid
FSC_WSet, wid
END

Thanks for your ideas.

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 11:55
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 19:02
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 01 February 2011 18:26
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 02 February 2011 19:29
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 15:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: wlandsman on Tue, 01 February 2011 15:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Fabzou on Thu, 03 February 2011 01:42
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: SonicKenking on Tue, 01 February 2011 14:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 13:14
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Matt[2] on Thu, 03 February 2011 11:15
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 February 2011 22:00
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: penteado on Wed, 02 February 2011 20:21

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