On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:32:42AM -0800, Alex Perry wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How about having a file that contains lines like this ...
> 
> /position/altitude-ft /position/altitude-m    3.3
> 
> It creates a bunch of property nodes for aliasing with a scaling factor,
> which output a warning to the console whenever they are used (as a hint).
> Both will work for get and set, but only the real one can be tied()ed.
> This provides legacy support for people, with a reminder to change.

I considered a console warning as well, but then I wondered how many
people actually pay attention to it? (especially if they are not
debugging something they know writes to the console)
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