Periodic Table of IDL Operators
posted Wed 1 Nov 2006 by Michael Galloy under IDL, Information design, Object graphics
I was motivated to make a diagram of IDL’s operators by Mark Lentczner’s Periodic Table of the Operators in Perl. IDL doesn’t have nearly as many operators as Perl, so the IDL Periodic Table is much sparser. I added some operators not listed in the table of precedence in the online help. Order of precedence was determined empirically.
Here’s the table along with the code and data to make it: mg_make_op_table.pro (docs), mgffxmlsaloperators__define.pro (docs), and operators.xml. MGffXMLSAXOperators is an example of using IDL’s SAX parser (and object-graphics).

April 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
[...] a copy of IDL Primer by Ronn Kling. (Full disclousre: I received a free copy because Ronn used my Periodic Table of IDL Operators on the back cover.) It’s a pocket sized “quick reference” that provides a quick [...]