Greg Ewing writes:
> With my "no new syntax" suggestion there would be no question here --
> the only way to write it would be
>
> height = 5 * ft + 4.5 * in
I'm very sympathetic to the "no new syntax" suggestion, but suppose I
wanted to know how many cm there are in an in:
cm_per_in = 1 * in / 1 * cm
Of course that's a silly mistake, but the (sole, IMO) advantage of the
original proposal is that you can't make that silly mistake.
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