Re: Safe Units Handling in Ada

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

Fraser Wilson <newsfraser@blancolioni.org> wrote in message news:<u3cwlbz02.fsf@FWILSON.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me>...
> After a recent discussion, I put together Macks, a small program that
> generates Ada packages for dealing with physical units in a type safe
> way.
> 
> You can now download Version 0.0.1 (that's confidence) from
> 
>  http://blancolioni.org/ada/macks/macks-0.0.1-src.tar.gz
>  http://blancolioni.org/ada/macks/macks-0.0.1-src.zip
> 
> Instructions are in the README, but if you have GNAT, then all you have
> to do is this:
> 
>  gnatmake -o macks macks-driver
> 
> The tar.gz version is just the zipped version run through dos2unix.  I
> don't currently have a Unix box with an Ada compiler installed (it's a
> depressing story), so technically that version hasn't been tested
> properly (except by (a) checking for the absence of ^M on the Unix box
> I do have, and (b) downloading to the Windows machine and compiling it).
> 
> cheers,
> Fraser.

I downloaded this, and it contains a large number of files. Perhaps you could
explain how it works and give a simple example.