From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
Subject: Re: Final comments and code for Ada Units Checking
Date: 1997/09/17
Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <341FF039.6D96@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 341CD609.4701@erols.com
From the comments:
..... As an example in SI, each of ms, Ms, mS, and MS
means something quite different. Many Ada programmers have an
arbitrary
coding-style convention .... That does not mean we
have to do likewise. Meter is _always_ to be symbolized in SI as "m",
_never_ "M". Likewise, second is _always_ to be symbolized as "s",
_never_
"S" (which is the _only_ acceptable symbol for siemens, the derived
unit of
conductance), and the kilogram _always_ as "kg", _never_ as "Kg".
...... (By the way, one of my few pet
peeves with Ada is that it does not require an implementation to
provide an
option of making case significant for identifiers for more rigorous
handling of scientific symbols, as can be done in C and C++ [hold nose
tightly]--I understand and concur with the default or standard
situation
of having case be insignificant, but there are important scenarios,
such
as this, where a programmer should be able to make effective use of
case.)
:-) :-) :-)
I can see it already: pragma Case_Sensitive ( "ms", "Ms", "mS", "MS" );
:-) :-) :-)
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1997-09-15 0:00 Final comments and code for Ada Units Checking William A Whitaker
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