Re: Avoiding FOR loops (version googleplex.infinity)

Dear Tom,
The trouble is that coming into this group, I always feel I am a
novice with IDL programming and algorithm designing. Hence, my
reluctance in asserting my views.

For example, my perusal of IDL help do***ents has led me to the belief
that creating tem****ary arrays help hasten things up while you mention
something to the contrary. I shall definitely look this up and would
appreciate pointers in the right direction.

As far as your code generating a result different from mine at the
edges is concerned, that-of course-is true. In that respect, my code
produces the same effect as the normal FOR loop, and this has been
verified.

And as for the bug in my code, I definitely stand corrected for my
code would fail if all the array elements in the kernel are different.
Thanks indeed for pointing it out to me.

Thanks indeed,
Gaurav