<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt">You are right, that's what I can do now. I may ask for too much. I expect grads like matlab, which has no this kind of problems.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt">slovoed </div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jennifer Adams <jma@COLA.IGES.ORG><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:22:30 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: possible to improve Grads for some deficiencies?<br></font><br>
<br><div><div>On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:09 AM, slovoed slovoed wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">hi,</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">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.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">1. on the last line of script, one "Return" must be added, otherwise it fail to run the last line.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">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.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">The points above
might be easily solved by code developer, aren't they?</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>Perhaps, but GrADS development resources are limited, and both problems are solved much more easily by</div><div>1) putting a carriage return at the end of your script</div><div>2) putting a ; right before the * in your comment</div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br
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