From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Units of Measure (was: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations)
Date: 2000/03/21
Date: 2000-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b8gl4$mve$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200003160642.HAA27776@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de
In article <200003160642.HAA27776@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de>,
comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> [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.
Why? if it has indeed already been discussed to death. Aren't
you trying to beat a dead horse here.
> I also strongly feel that such a feature in the language is
necessary. (Would
> this have prevented the latest NASA Mars mission form
failing?)
No (at least that's the conclusion of the extensive thread
on this subject in this forum, Q.V.).
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-16 0:00 Units of Measure (was: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations) Christoph Grein
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-03-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-22 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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