From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe9ec916c5bbbd59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-14 08:07:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C1A23BC.919236CF@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Consider her way -- Re: Dimensionality Checking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:07:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1008346051 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:07:31 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:07:31 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17914 Date: 2001-12-14T11:07:24-05:00 List-Id: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote: > The principal difference between the dimensionality and the units is that > it is very often necessary to mix the variables of different dimensionality > in a formulae, while a mix of different units (of the same dimensionality) is > a nonsense. I disagree. We recently had a discussion of the problems caused by mixing feet and meters. A language feature that either prevents that or causes it to get the right answer would be a Good Thing. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau