Re: Resource errors

Hi James,

I guess it would be hard to let NCL determine what is "non-essential".

If I may guess, you are concerned that a time consuming calculation
had to be repeated because of the error in resource allocation for
plotting. My strategy in this situation would be to write the results
from Step 1 to a temporary (or permanent) file and perform the
plotting separately.

cheers,
saji

* James Correia <jimmyc42_at_gmail.com> [2008-07-22 13:27:23 -0700]:

> I can't speak for anyone else, but when I write NCL code and finally have it
> debugged, at least all the way to the plotting section of the script, I
> dislike that NCL will terminate when a non-essential line of code errs.
> for example,
> 1. do a large calculation
> 2. prepare resources for plotting
> then set the title of the plot:
> res_at_tiMainString = times(it) ; <---"it"
> plot = ...
>
> well, in my case I forgot to change the title (after my "it" loop, "it" was
> greater than the dimensioned array). It would be nice if NCL could ignore my
> forgetfulness and just not use said resource if it is undefined or that
> array is out of bounds or something, and then continue to do the plot.
>
> I guess this would require resource error checking. Is that is at all
> possible. I certainly understand if it is not feasible. But it would be nice
> if NCL didnt quit when a resource wasnt set properly as demonstrated here.
> Maybe even a function that would be called when a resource errors to set it
> to null...
>
> --
> James Correia Jr.
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> Climate Physics Group, PNNL

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