On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 5:16:53 AM UTC+12, Ian wrote: > For local variables I usually wouldn't bother with the units, but in > general it's a good practice to help avoid crashing your orbiter into > Mars.
The Mars Climate Orbiter fiasco wasn’t a problem with using the wrong units (dimensional analysis would have picked that up), but with using wrong unit _systems_. Ironic to see a country that fought a war to liberate itself from an empire, still stay so wedded to “imperial” units... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
