[fitsbits] Proposed Changes to the FITS Standard

[Thierry Forveille]

Doug Tody a écrit :
> I'll just second this.  I have seen many cases where a FITS header gets
> multiple keyword instances after it has been modified by different
> programs.  This is awful of course as the header is then ambiguous,
> but it happens.  Software may or may not use the last instance as
> a runtime value; for example, if the software does a linear search
> through the header it is possible that it will take the first value
> encountered (for either reading or writing) as this is more efficient,
> and there are not supposed to be multiple keyword instances. 
Well, if the software does a linear search through the header,
I think it already relinquished its right to invoke
efficiency considerations :-)