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Re: IDL 5.2 array definition question. [message #21434 is a reply to message #21428]

Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00

davidf
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Paul van Delst (pvandelst@ncep.noaa.gov) writes:

> Like I alluded to previously, IDL 5.3 raised the limit to 65536 (or
> thereabouts) which is way larger than any array initialisation anyone
> would want to type by hand, but I would still like to know what design
> decisions the pre-5.3 behaviour was based on. That's all.

Memory limitations on a PDP-11 computer. :-)

Cheers,

David

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