Martin Spott wrote: >Hi Harald, > > > >I still don't understand why it should be required to initialize these >values to -0.01 instead of 0.0. If power switches are off, then 0.0 is >the correct value "by definition" (TM). If some conditional statement >doesn't handle this, then probably the conditional should be work >differently instead initializing some valued with, well, 'irritating' >values. > > The statment should be if ( volts > node->get_volts() || !node->is_initialized) but I don't find that simpler or easier to read.
>Certainly, one year later someone writes a different routine and >expects the voltage to be 0.0 if the switches are off .... and would >be terribly annoyed if he had to deal with this workaround. > > But the whole point of this patch is to have *0.0* volts. We do not have 0.0 volts today, we have 24 volts. Harald. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
