Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: PDL demos for PLplot

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

* Doug Hunt <hu...@ma...> [2003-12-15 13:15]:

> So, in summary:  The mis-ordered arguments should be fixed, but it would 
> require a new feature in PDL to accomplish this.

In the meantime, you could write wrappers for the problematic cases,
like:

    sub plbox {
      plbox_pdl ($_[1], $_[2], $_[4], $_[5], $_[0], $_[3]);
    }

Where plbox_pdl would be the subroutine that your API currently provides.  

> Redundant arguments in some functions should be fixed, but it might break a
> small number of existing PDL/PLplot scripts.

Well, PDL/PLplot is quite young and, as you mentioned, your higher level
interface hides the low level calls.  For these reasons, it may be worth to
"fix" some of the redundant argument cases.

-- 
Rafael