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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: Another Idea for Ada 20XX
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* James Rogers wrote:
>In scientific terms a measurement is done in terms of some unit.
>For instance, distance is in meters, microns, feet or furlongs.
>Speed is then calculated as a distance per unit time. Acceleration
>is the second derivative of speed.

>Note that a lot of the unit analysis could be performed statically.
>This would allow minimal performance penalty at run time.

http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/ada/units/

I�m going to provide automatic unit optimization. Please stay tuned.