Re: Macks - adding unit constants?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> writes:
>>Stephen Leake wrote:

>>>Exception for user interfaces, you should only use one length unit in
>>>your code;
>>
>>When it comes to my current problem I agree, but I am not sure I do it
>>in general.
>>
>> > it might as well be meter (m).
>>
>>It is very impractical to have to remember to write "0.000_86" and not
>>"0.86", when you put constants in your code.  
> 
> That's a user interface.

Yes.  But code _is_ my user interface.  (or at least a part of it)

> How often do you actually have hardcoded constants in real code?

Much too often.

> I'd expect them to be in an input file somewhere.

They should be.  But 1) you still need default values and 2) it is in
some cases (including the one I am working on right now) an unneeded
complication to add configuration files to the system.

Jacob
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