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Re: temporary() pitfall



Wayne Landsman (landsman@my-deja.com) writes:

> One reason I don't have complete confidence in this result is that at
> least one RSI-supplied procedure (laguerre.pro) includes the statement
> 
>     xPrec = FLOAT(TEMPORARY(xPrec))
> 
> which I'd say is a useless use of TEMPORARY().

Uh, let's not get started on the quality of RSI-supplied
IDL code. :-(

Cheers,

David 

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