Tony Peden wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > Tony Peden wrote: > > > I certainly like the idea of having some sort of units indicator > > > on every property name, though I agree risk of breakage is high > > > in this case. > > > > I can change everything in FlightGear and the base package, but I'm > > worried about breaking people's private config files, especially for > > joysticks. > > Well, leaving them as they are certainly won't be a problem for the > current developers -- the units for those have been percent for as long > as I can remember. And percent are non-dimensional, so no units > indicator is probably just as correct as -pct or -nd or whatever.
I agree in general. I'd suggest the use of -fraction or somesuch instead of -pct if the range is 0:1, as it is for most of these properties currently. Even non-dimensional numbers need units to tell you how to interpret them. Sometimes percent really is more appropriate; consider N1 and N2 turbine speeds. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
