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Re: declare variables [message #45941 is a reply to message #45940]

Tue, 18 October 2005 13:35

Ken Mankoff
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Registered: February 2000

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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, qian wrote:
> is it possible I can re-inforce the array to be certain type (or
> let the variables to be certain type throughtout the whole
> program)? So even if I type d=1, it is still a real number?

No. IDL is a very loosly typed language. You can do:

x = 3.14159
x = "sort of pi"

And there exist no mechanism to produce an error, warning, message,
or anything that the variable has changed types.

-k.

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		Re: declare variables By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 18 October 2005 16:37
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