Blue plane?

Alan C. Kay alank at wdi.disney.com
Thu Apr 9 13:48:23 UTC 1998


Augustin --

Thanks very much!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:03 AM +0200 4/9/98, Augustin Mrazik wrote:
>Alan C. Kay wrote:
>
>> ..... Along these lines, what we should do is to simply "humanize" how Smalltalk deals with world concepts. As a tiny example, it would help in many ways if Smalltalk had "units" (meters, ergs, liters, etc.).
>
>We have developed a pretty comprehensive framework for units (both metric and non-metric), with automatic conversions between compatible units, formatting on output and converting textual input to unit (e.g. from an input field from a submited www form). It is in VW.
>
>I will keep this in eye, look at the code and put it to the web (give me some 2 weeks).
>
>Augustin





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