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Martin Dowie wrote:
>>I've always thought that the pain of introducing full dimensional
>>handling (without language support) is unjustifiable, and that if
> 
> We only define what we need. As I mentioned at AdaUK, I've tried
> greating *all* combinations before and the text editor just exploded!

Language support is very helpful here. In C++ you just define
the templates for what you need, and the compiler takes care
of instantiating just the ones that are used.