possible to improve Grads for some deficiencies?

[Charles Seman]

Slovoed,

If you don't mind the appearance, try this:

'your GrADS command'   ;* your comment

and put no space between ; and *

see for example http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/script.html#intro:
---

Alternatively, the three records could be on the same line separated by
a semicolon:

      |if (i = 10) ; j = 20 ; endif|

---

Chuck

slovoed slovoed wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have been using Grads for many years. As I know, there are some
> deficiencies in Grads I can not slove it since I have no knowledge
> about the source code of Grads.
>
> 1. on the last line of script, one "Return" must be added, otherwise
> it fail to run the last line.
>
> 2.  * is used to comment some certain lines in script, but * must be
> placed in the first column, otherwide will report the error. It's not
> useful to let the script nice-looking and easy to read. Does it like
> matlab, * can be placed anywhere for commenting.
>
> The points above might be easily solved by code developer, aren't they?
>
>
> slovoed
>

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