Hi, Jason,
Jason Cunliffe wrote:
>
> > Why we're on the subject of new datatypes, what others are needed?
> > Degrees (and minutes) perhaps?
>
> GPS Location = YES PLEASE!!!
>
...
>
> After voice, geo-referencing is among the top 5 killer apps for
> mobile systems. REBOL could shine brightly in this area, playing
> to its strengths, opening up new apps and services. And without
> falling foul of heavy established monopolies.
>
Having a new type (perhaps DEGREES!) which recognizes angle/lat/lon
values with degrees, minutes, and seconds, handles the conversions
and manipulation of the parts correctly/automatically would come
much close IMHO to the case of an extension which COULD be written
at mezzanine level but would greatly improve in performance if in
the native level.
That said, how many of us currently are writing code that would use
such a type? (And, yes, I know that there's a chicken/egg issue
here, but I'm still wondering...)
-jn-
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; Joel Neely joeldotneelyatfedexdotcom
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do function [s] [t] [ t: "" foreach [a b] s [repend t [b a]] t ] {
| e s m!zauafBpcvekexEohthjJakwLrngohOqrlryRnsctdtiub} 2 ]
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