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Re: WHILE loop
Hi Andrew,
Yes, this idea is on our list of things to work on, but we haven't yet had
a chance to implement it.
Ansley Manke
Andrew Wittenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Mick Spillane wrote:
> > It is possible that wiser (though probably not older) heads will come up
> > with a way to use "while ... endw" in which case I'll be glad to stand
> > corrected.
>
> To the Ferret developers: it'd be great to have a looping structure that
> could use an arbitrary counting variable. Currently, REPEAT requires one
> of the four (i,j,k,l) indices, which can be problematic when you have
> multiple nested loops or a 4-dimensional dataset (since these indices
> affect the context, or dataslice). It also complicates the writing of
> general .jnl scripts that may not know the shape of the input data they'll
> be working on.
>
> For back-compatibility, Ferret could keep the current behavior for i,j,k,l
> -- but arbitrary counters could add the ability to loop over negative
> values, without affecting the current dataslice. Something like this:
>
> REPEAT/foo=1:5 (REPEAT/bar=100:-100:-50 (...))
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andrew
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
> | Dr. Andrew T. Wittenberg | GFDL/NOAA |
> | Andrew.Wittenberg@noaa.gov | Princeton, NJ |
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Ansley Manke Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Seattle WA (206)526-6246
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