units

stan at stanheckman.com stan at stanheckman.com
Wed Nov 11 22:08:21 UTC 1998


>> OK, so when one of these funky non-mathematical o
Ken Dickey <kend at apple.com> writes (with salt):
> Numerical operations such should only operate on the numeric part of the 
> object.

Do you mean that the units operations and numerical operations should
be in separate methods, or that these objects shouldn't be numbers, or
what? I think the message #* is telling a dimensional object both to
change its numerical value, and to change its units. How would it "only
operate on the numeric part of the object"?

-- 
Stan





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