From: stt@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Types with physical dimension
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:37:40 GMT
Date: 1994-09-29T13:37:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Cww8It.MuF@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36deok$dce@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <36deok$dce@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>"Of course it would be nice to have more direct support for units"
That's cheating a bit (you must have a politician in the family) --
you left off my parenthetical comment and smiley "(given infinite
resources, that is ;-)"
>In the "of course" here likes a rather fundamental assumption which I
>question, namely that it is always desirable to have features at hand
>that do exactly what you want in the most convenient way. While that
>may seem locally optimal, I am afraid that following this inclination
>repeatedly leads to too much complexity in language design.
> ...
I completely agree with the above, and that is one reason why Ada 9X
does *not* have direct support for units. You always have to weigh
complexity versus benefits (some people's scales are sturdier than
others ;-). I guess I should have "expanded" on my smiley a bit more...
-Tucker Taft
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1994-09-28 17:36 ` Types with physical dimension William Brennan
1994-09-28 21:41 ` Tucker Taft
1994-09-29 4:11 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-29 11:19 ` Peter Hermann
1994-09-30 10:17 ` Dr John Stockton
1994-10-03 4:37 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-29 13:37 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1994-10-03 4:40 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-28 19:28 Paul Pukite
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1994-09-28 10:55 Simtel20 Transfer
1994-09-28 18:56 ` Mark A Biggar
1994-10-04 2:06 ` lmiller
1994-09-27 22:18 Paul Graham
1994-09-28 13:59 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-30 2:06 ` R_Tim_Coslet
1994-10-03 17:31 ` Stephen A. Leake
1994-10-04 11:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-04 19:45 ` Mark A Biggar
[not found] ` <CxBBx8.7L@irvine.com>
1994-10-13 22:15 ` gamache
1994-10-12 3:43 ` Matt Kennel
1994-10-04 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 14:53 ` Bob Gilbert
1994-10-05 8:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1994-10-05 10:35 ` Stephen J Bevan
1994-10-05 13:17 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1994-10-05 15:48 ` Norman H. Cohen
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