This is a boolean attribute which
indicates whether the
Object data being read through a
Channel are inter-mixed with
other, irrelevant, external data.
If Skip is zero (the default), then the source of input data is expected to contain
descriptions of AST Objects and comments and nothing else (if anything else is
read, an error will result). If Skip is non-zero, then any non-Object data
encountered between Objects will be ignored and simply skipped over in order to
reach the next Object.
Channel
All Channels have this attribute.
The FitsChan class sets the
default value of this attribute to 1, so that all irrelevant FITS headers will
normally be ignored.
The YamlChan class ignores this attribute.