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Re: histogram and UINT [message #70124]

Thu, 18 March 2010 09:32

Michael Galloy
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On 3/17/10 5:58 PM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> In article<hnrj7g$hqh$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
> mgalloy<mgalloy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/17/10 12:36 PM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> Hmm.
>
> This part of the docs
>
> IDL Programmer's Guides - Defining and Using Constants - Integer Constants
>
> implies that U and US are identical.
>
> OTOH, the table in the DEFINT section implies that the constant 42U does not
> include a type specifier.
>
> Huh?
>
> There may be a good reason for this syntactical subtlety (aka "a really
> obscure feature"), but ITTVIS REALLY needs to make this clearer in the docs.

I think the docs just need to be cleaned up a bit. Clearly, "u" should
modify the specified type (and the default integer type if no type is
specified) just like "x" or "o" modify the base of the specified type.

Mike
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		Re: histogram and UINT By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 18 March 2010 09:32
		Re: histogram and UINT By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 17 March 2010 16:58
		Re: histogram and UINT By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 17 March 2010 14:57
		Re: histogram and UINT By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 17 March 2010 11:36

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