Re: making an object from class structure?

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

Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes:
 
> I guess I am still a little confused.

Pavel, he is making his *own* save files. :-)

> If you are going to manually fill in values into future object's fields,
> why not get its definition from SAV and then use OBJ_NEW and SETPROPERTY
> to make a reference and fill it with data?

For the simple reason that the SETPROPERTY method doesn't
(in my experience, *ever*) allow you to set all the fields
of the object.

Cheers,

David

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