Re: SI Units Checked and Unchecked

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 11:11:16 AM UTC-6, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. September 2019 16:20:04 UTC+2 schrieb Shark8:
> > ... the site appears to be down.
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> As I have been in retirement for 8 years now, I've closed my homepage. The few things I deemed to be worth to preserve have been put by courtesy of Randy at this place:
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> https://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/tools-libraries/
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> (see Christoph Grein’s Essentials).
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> Ths SI units package you are looking for (linked from the URL above) is here:
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> http://archive.adaic.com/tools/CKWG/Dimension/SI.html
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> My Ada Magica column is here (Förderverein Ada Deutschland):
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> https://www.ada-deutschland.de/sites/default/files/AdaTourCD/AdaTourCD2004/Ada%20Magica/Contents.html

Thank you for the links, as well as the work on the SI units.
Browsing around, it looks like a lot of the library can be made Pure, with the exception of the irritating provision/prohibition of "statically composed compound constants" that appeared in the "Why can't objects be static in Ada?" thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.ada/8dMIIAOV7YQ/sscqy-tlCQAJ — I think your SI-Units library is an extremely good motivating example of *WHY* this needs to be changed, and will push for this change in the upcoming meeting of the ARG. (Indeed, changing this limitation is orders of magnitude more useful than adding square-brackets.)

BTW
Are there any tips, in particular for using the library?