Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-16 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 01:03, Melchior Franz wrote: > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > + var MPS2KT = 1 / KT2MPS; > + > var LB2KG = 0.45359237;# pounds to kilogram > var KG2LB = 1 / LB2KG; Personally I think all these constants would be easier to read if th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > Personally I think all these constants would be easier to > read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, > i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_TO_M and so on. I find them equally easy to read

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > > > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > > > Personally I think all these constants would be easier to > > read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, > > i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_TO_M and so on.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:44, Syd wrote: > I dont know if this makes sense to anyone else , but to me the first > version is a word , the second option is a sentence :) Agreed completely - the issue is, I think of all these things as sentences (well, phrases, anyway) - so I find FOO2BAR rather lik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > >>> + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s >>> > > >> Personally I think all these constants would be easier to >> read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, >> i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > var MPS_TO_KT = MPS2KT; > > What do other Nasal developers think? I'm willing to change it if > others have problems with that, too. (And to change all occurrences > in the repository.) No problem here with shorter names for the constants. For me they are easy to reco