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Re: Strange Bug with numeric double constants [message #14702 is a reply to message #14700]

Mon, 22 March 1999 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just experienced some weird IDL behaviour:
>
> IDL> help, 1.0d+2.0d
>
> help, 1.0d+2.0d
> ^
> % Syntax error.
> [...]

I'd just say it's normal. Since '+' or '-' are two allowed characters
in the exponential, IDL wants to interpret everything after '+' as the
exponent, and you are limited to integer exponents here.

Just for fun: if you try
help,1.d*2.d it will work!

Martin.

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