From: Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.de>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Units of Measure (was: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations)
Date: 2000/03/16
Date: 2000-03-21T17:53:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200003160642.HAA27776@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de> (raw)
[I think this should become a new discussion thread.]
Although this has already been discussed to death and there are a plethora of
ways how to deal with dimensions, this is a vivid point of interest.
I also strongly feel that such a feature in the language is necessary. (Would
this have prevented the latest NASA Mars mission form failing?)
[Just a side note: There are engineers with a queer inclination to dimensions.
In our project, one of our system engineers on the implementing side complained
at an engineer on the requirements side about a formula that from a units point
of view could not be correct - the answer: "This is not a school test..." and
refusal
to reconsider the equation.]
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2000-03-16 0:00 Christoph Grein [this message]
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Units of Measure (was: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations) Robert Dewar
2000-03-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-22 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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