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| Jason Quinn |
10/13/2008 08:55PM (Read 3143 times)
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I only just now noticed that you can use char variables in IRAF like strings. In fact, I haven't even found a difference between them. Is there? Seems risky.Jason
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| fitz |
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10/13/2008 08:55PM
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Internally, a 'char' and a 'string' type declaration are the same. I'm not sure whether this started as a convenience or was intended to allow strings to grow thru concatenation. As for 'risky', nobody seems to complain too much about stuff like this in loosely-typed languages like Python ...........Cheers,
-Mike
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