Re: what does this mean?

Hi Larry,

It means that you are trying to use an NCL function (which returns a
value), but using
it as a procedure instead.

For example, if you did:

x = (/1,2,3/)
avg(x)

you would get this message because 'avg' is function and wants to
return a value:

y = avg(x)

This error message isn't at all useful. At least <identifier> should
have the name of the function
in it! I'll see if we can get this fixed.

--Mary

On Oct 25, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Larry McDaniel wrote:

> Hi
>
> does anybody know what this means?
> fatal:syntax error: <identifier> IS A FUNCTION NOT A PROCEDURE
>
> thanks
> Larry
>
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> Institute for the Study of Society and Environment
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