Eldon Eller wrote:
> Let the surveyors decide what notation is appropriate for their field.
> They may well want an antiquated notation included to deal with
> antiquated documents. I rather like the notion of a separate category
> (or sub-category) for surveying.
I completely agree that surveyors are entitled to their opinions about notation,
as well as accountants to theirs and air navigators to theirs, no matter how
obsolete and for whatever reasons.
I was just making a point that the verbs to deal with all those special cases do
not belong to standard general purpose library.
Besides, a bad practice is still a bad practice even if "everybody is doing it
because a
program from HP library from 40 years ago was doing it".
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