[fitsbits] further reopening of Public Comment Period on the CONTINUE convention

Mark Calabretta mark at calabretta.id.au
Thu Apr 21 08:45:15 EDT 2016


On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:41:07 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Weilbacher <pweilbacher at aip.de> wrote:

> Giving continued and not-continued keywords explicitly different types
> would complicate the standard without little gain.

Strictly speaking, the distinction is between "non-continuable" and
"continuable" keywords.  These ARE the the two different types!  What
I have been calling "string" and "long-string".

Regards,
Mark Calabretta



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