Re: Top 10 IDL Requests

[davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Vinay L. Kashyap (kashyap@head-cfa.harvard.edu) writes:

> 1. CALL_EXTERNAL
> 
> No one I know has come close to implementing a C or Fortran
> call_external in Solaris 2.5+ -- perhaps it's simply a matter
> of providing better documentation.

IDL 5.4 will make this a bit easier by writing the "glue"
code between IDL and your C program, as I understand it.
This will make the whole argc, argv thing easier to digest.

> 2. _EXTRA
> 
> Please consider having all built-in commands accept _EXTRA as a keyword.

Uh, this is the way it works. :-)

Cheers,

David

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