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From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
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> Grein, Christoph wrote:
> > This is also easy in Ada.
> 
> No, it is not. Of your referenced approaches, only Macks adopts
> the spirit of the C++ solution, in which all unit operations are
> checked at compile-time, and unit objects have no space overhead.
> And Macks requires a seperate processing step to generate the
> Ada code, and furthermore results in a combinatorial explosion
> of declarations.

Hyman, excuse my ignorance, but I'm illiterate in C++.

For me, the code posted looked like Kazakov's solution with run-time handling of 
dimension exponents. Your reply now seems to say that C++ does the checking and 
exponent addition during compile time. Is that true?