On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:25:36AM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > 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.
OK, if you really want to save percent for 0-100 quantities, how about something a little shorter than -fraction, -ratio (-fraction is perfectly good, just long) > > 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 -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
