On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 16:41, Brian McCall <brian.patrick.mcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How something is used is not the same as how it is defined. I might use my > car key to open my mail, but if I ask someone if they've seen my letter > opener, they're probably not going to be able to help me find my car keys. >
+1 QOTW! > Not sure what you mean by "cover far less". Even implementing just the 29 > base and derived SI units would have a profound impact on the work done by > engineers and scientists on a day to day basis. And the impact of such a > change will only grow more in importance over time. As I mentioned in another > reply, adding in the remaining SI units AND the Imperial / US Customary still > only brings up a grand total of 160 units. There are other systems too, but > they all use units that are defined elsewhere. > > FWIW, I do not subscribe to the mindset of "Well, I had to do it this way, so > why can't you kids learn to do it this way too?" > The 160 units would be more likely to have collisions though. Also, the base and derived SI units will be used with magnitude prefixes, which increases the effective number of collision chances. So I do still think they need to be kept separate - also because it allows units that Python never thought of. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GUOGLUW6ZXX6EO4IDA4SY7QGM32OXB54/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
