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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Dimensions and fixed point types
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:16:26 +0200
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Date: 2004-06-11T09:16:26+02:00

Hi Robert,

> So to go back to Duncan's original complaint add:
> 
> function "*"(Left: Price; Right: Volume) return Value;
> 
> This will hide ALL the predefined operations that Duncan wants to get 
> rid of, and any new ones that involve Price, Volume, or Value, so the line:
> 
> P := V * Val; -- The compiler will complain that no visible "*" matches.

while it would indeed solve my problem, it also makes the rules for fixed
point types even more exotic than they are right now, which is a bad thing
in my opinion.

All the best,

Duncan.