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"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Seems to me "marks" and "make_unit" meet that criterion. Now we just
> need to work out a consensus on the format of the units definition
> input file, and some style details for the generated Ada spec. Then
> we'd have a specification for a standard Grace component.
>
> Although, I'd hold off a little bit till people actually try it in
> real projects. I'm not convinced it will turn out to be useful.

I haven't had the benefit of a 'units' generator but I have re-used
the same (simple) SI units package on a few projects - an all to
rare example of real software re-use!