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From: "ME" <abcdefg@nonodock.net>
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Subject: Re: SI Units - has Ada missed the boat?
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:54:10 -0700
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Yes I have been looking for this.
"Martin" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
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> One of my pet hopes for Ada2005 was that it would include some method
> of automatically checking systems of units at compilation time or with
> minimal run-time checking. Alas it was voted down due to time
> pressures and technical issues (see 
> http://www.ada-auth.org/ai-files/minutes/min-0403.html#AI324
> and http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00324.TXT?rev=1.3).
>
> C++ now has the Boost library (see 
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/units)
> with zero-runtime cost (or at least when optimisation is switched on).
>
> And now Java has a proposal for a similar beast (see
> https://jsr-275.dev.java.net/files/documents/4333/34956/jsr-275.pdf).
>
> I've been playing around with the C++ Boost library and it seems quite
> good - at least for the sort of things I would use it for (embedded
> avionics).
>
> Is anyone still working on an Ada solution to this?
>
> Cheers
> -- Martin
>