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Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> I'd say that the best approach would be that if
> someone had a notion that something belonged in Grace, they ought to post a
> trial-specification here with enough meat to it that people could get a
> flavor of what it would be like. If its got any appeal, that would become
> apparent & it would likely end up in the project. 

Seems to me "marks" and "make_unit" meet that criterion. Now we just
need to work out a consensus on the format of the units definition
input file, and some style details for the generated Ada spec. Then
we'd have a specification for a standard Grace component.

Although, I'd hold off a little bit till people actually try it in
real projects. I'm not convinced it will turn out to be useful.

Well, it would be useful in physics classes, and possibly in computer
science classes, as an example of what kinds of thing _can_ be done.

-- 
-- Stephe