[NeXus-tech] Units in nxdl

[Pete Jemian]

Good point.

Can the messages sent from the mailing list be changed so they appear to 
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(with the posting address in the CC)?  Now, they are the other way 
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reply.

Pete

Peterson, Peter F. (pf9) wrote:
> Isn't the regexp part handled by the fact that these types only occur in the
> units field? I don't have a strong objection, but the names are a bit long
> already.
>
> I'm not trying to stop development, but do we want to wait on some of these
> issue until we all talk?
>
> P^2
>
>
> On 11/19/08 1:41 PM, "Pete Jemian" <prjemian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Seems fine to me.  I'm open and editing now.  Want me to do this?
>>
>> Akeroyd, FA (Freddie) wrote:
>>     
>>> Just a quick comment on units - I think it would be a good idea to prefix our
>>> names i.e. use
>>>
>>> NX_UNITS_LENGTH
>>> NX_UNITS_ANY
>>>
>>> Etc.
>>>
>>> This makes it clearer what the names stand for and would allow unit names to
>>> be easily matched by a regular expression, if needed, at a later point.
>>>
>>> Freddie
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>   

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