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Implementation of physical units

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 22 , Issue 8 (August 1987) table of contents

Pages: 45 - 50

Year of Publication: 1987

ISSN:0362-1340

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Geoff Baldwin

Baldwin Information Processing, Portola Valley, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes an implementation of strong typing with physical units. The typing system of a commercial Pascal compiler was minimally extended to allow compile-time checking of expressions involving physical units to ensure that the familiar semantics of dimensional analysis are not violated. The key concepts and mechanisms are described, as are the differences between ordinary type checking and that for physical units.

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	1	R. Männer, Strong typing and physical units, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.21 n.3, p.11-20, March 1986 [doi>10.1145/382280.382281]
	2	A Dreiheller , B Mohr , M Moerschbacher, Programming pascal with physical units, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.21 n.12, p.114-123, Dec. 1986 [doi>10.1145/15042.15048]
	3	3. R. Mankin, (Letter), SIGPLAN Notices 22 3, March 1987, p. 13.
	4	4. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 37th Edition, Chemical Rubber Publishing Company, Cleveland 1955, "Units and Conversion Factors," pp. 2852-2893.

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