From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:12:25 +0200 Message-ID: <851x2k62hy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87hdbihexg.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> <85y84u7fdc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hdbh6eak.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> <87slv0bzv2.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129544820 18487 80.91.229.2 (17 Oct 2005 10:27:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 12:26:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERSC4-00005G-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:26:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERSC3-0007uz-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERRds-00034X-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERRdr-000341-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERRdr-00033l-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERRdr-0001BG-Kf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERRdq-00038g-D5; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id CCE201C4CD7D; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:12:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: James Cloos In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:33:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44175 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: >>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Belanger writes: > >>> P.S.: The patch also removes the "degree" for "Kelvin". > > Jay> Why? > > There is no such thing as degrees Kelvin, there are only Kelvins. The question is whether its the business of calc to be convenient or to educate. Of course, K should be available as a unit of its own, but I see no harm by degK being an alias. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum