[iaufwg] IAUFWG review of the new draft FITS Standard

[Steve Allen]

I accept the new version of the FITS standard.

On Tue 2008-04-01T12:11:42 +0200, Preben Grosbol hath writ:
>   1) in 4.1.2.3, it is mentions that 'All other keywords that have a value
>       should not appear more than once.'
>
>        I accept that one cannot avoid duplicate keywords in headers as
>        such cases already exist.  The value is obviously 'indeterminate'
>        as stated.  Since the case of duplicate keywords are mentions,
>        it may be appropriate to warn against repeating the same keyword
>        with different value types.  I would find it very bad practice to do so
>        and would not expect to find such usage in any existing FITS file.

On behalf of the optical Keck instruments developed by the teams at
UCO/Lick and Caltech I humbly accept this award.  8-)

Don't ask what they were thinking, for there is no answer, and I've
done my best to document and rewrite the code such that it becomes
possible to consider stopping the practice -- perhaps starting with
the next detector upgrade that we're reviewing today.

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