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Bad Advice? [message #89595]

Thu, 30 October 2014 11:14

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

The latest article on the IDL Data Point blog contains this advice:

"Be very careful using the OBJ_DESTROY method."

I'm not sure this is particularly good advice, especially if you write
IDL code that might inadvertently be run on a non-IDL 8 version of IDL.
In those cases (and I think I would still argue in ALL cases), you might
want to be *sure* to use the OBJ_DESTROY method!

Cheers,

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

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