[udf-dlm-develop] Helpful feature in IDL 5.3

[Harald F. <hf...@ap...>]

I have started with 5.3 and there is a nice helpful feature which you might use 
in your IDL software development. If you add the following line to your 
idl_startup.pro

for i=0,3 do !warn.(i)=1B

you will get all kinds of warnings if your code or programming style uses old 
features, like () for indizes, obsolete procedures etc. However, if you are 
tired by the hundreds of warnings about the parentheses for indeces, you may 
turn this particular feature off by adding

print,' All fields of !WARN activated, but not parentheses '                    
!warn.(2)=0	

Harald

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Harald U. Frey 
Space Sciences Lab	   phone: 510-643-3323
University of California   fax:   510-643-2624      
Berkeley, CA 94720-7450    email: hf...@ss...