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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Dimension checking was RE: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a
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Date: 13 Jan 2003 12:34:59 -0500
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"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:

> An obvious fix, which was discussed at SIGAda 2002, is to develop a means
> (Pragma?) to tell the compiler to only check the dimensionality at compile
> time. This could be in the form of a compile time assertion.

Or an ASIS tool that reads structured comments to get the units.

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-- Stephe