| Re: Arrays: strange feature ?! [message #20020 is a reply to message #19877] |
Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00   |
dmarshall
Messages: 23
Registered: December 1997
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Ah, yes.
Which is why progammers get Christmas and Halloween mixed up since
oct31=dec25
(Christmas falls on December 25th and Halloween on October 31)
Dave.
In article <391A76A6.8C74B2B0@mpipsykl.mpg.de>, Benno Puetz <puetz@mpipsykl.mpg.de> writes:
> marc wrote:
>
>> But another more funny 'feature' is this:
>>
>> IDL> print,'abc'
>> abc
>> IDL> print,"abc"
>> abc
>> IDL> print,'777'
>> 777
>> IDL> print,"777"
>>
>> print,"777"
>> ^
>> % Syntax error.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> :-) marc
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> It's a real feature
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> IDL> print,"777
> 511
>
> (check the online help for 'octal')
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> --
> Benno Puetz
> Kernspintomographie
> Max-Planck-Institut f. Psychiatrie Tel.: +49-89-30622-413
> Kraepelinstr. 10 Fax : +49-89-30622-520
> 80804 Muenchen, Germany
>
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