Lazy expression evaluation

NCL team,

Is lazy expression evaluation supposed to work for array expressions?

See attached script. mask1 is scalar and shows the expected result.
  This is basically the example in the NCL manual under "If
statements", with assignment rather than if statement.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/Ref_Manual/NclStatements.shtml

For mask2 I expect True, False, True, but NCL returns True, Missing,
True. This creates problems for subsequent usage of the mask.

I checked this with NCL versions 5.0.1 (pre-release, ca. May 2008)
and 5.1.1 (pre-release). The problem was the same in both.

uname -a
Darwin mac56.psd.esrl.noaa.gov 9.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0:
Tue Mar 31 22:54:29 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_PPC
Power Macintosh powerpc PowerMac7,3 Darwin

Please advise. Thank you for taking a look.

Dave Allured
CU/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
http://cires.colorado.edu/science/centers/cdc/
NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Analysis Branch (CAB)
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/psd1/

; Test program for lazy expression evaluation.
; 2009-jun-13 By Dave Allured, NOAA/PSD/CU/CIRES/CDC.

begin
   a = (/ 1,2,3 /)
   a@_FillValue = 2
  
   i=1
   mask1 = (.not.ismissing(a(i)) .and. (a(i) .gt. 0))
   print (mask1)
  
   mask2 = (.not.ismissing(a) .and. (a .gt. 0))
   print (mask2)
end

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Received on Fri Jun 12 2009 - 19:22:56 MDT