Re: Some special behaviour of ROUTINE_NAMES

[Karsten Rodenacker <rodena(at)gsf.de>]

Craig Markwardt schrieb:

> Karsten Rodenacker <rodena@gsf.de> writes:
>
> > Hallo IDL gurus,
> > did anybody remark the quite special behaviour of that undocumented
> > function ROUTINE_NAMES. Try to read with the idl macro import_image a
> > file beginning with a number. A structure is generated with a variable
> > name starting with a number, which is quite difficult to be accessed.
> > Doesn't that open a lot of new possibilities?
>
> I don't know what possibilities you are talking about :-), but you can
> make funny and illegal structures by yourself too.  Amuse your
> friends.
>
> IDL Version 5.2.1 (linux x86). (c) 1999, Research Systems, Inc.
> IDL> foo = create_struct('1',1, '2',2)
> IDL> help, /struct, foo
> ** Structure <817fda4>, 2 tags, length=4, refs=1:
>    1               INT              1
>    2               INT              2
> IDL> print, foo.(0), foo.(1)
>        1       2
>
> But, as you can see, the elements can be accessed by using the
> array-like indexing of structure tags.

That does not meet the point. Show me how to create a variable beginning with
an number (access  it). E.G. 1foo=create(...)!
Regards
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