Re: Autoboxing and Performance ?

From:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

22 Aug 2013 20:19:58 GMT

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Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> writes:

a Length should always have a units attribute

  In OOP, we only model those aspects of entities of the
  application domain we actually need.

  When all agree upfront that within a certain project every
  length is given in meters (double), we do not need to store
  the unit with every value. Taking into account a run-time
  unit for every value also makes calculations more complicated
  (and thus possibly even more error-prone).

  Moreover, a lenght (in physics) /does not have/ a unit!
  (Just as a number does not have a number system.) Only the
  /printed representation/ of a lenght has a unit, just as one
  can print an integer in every number system one chooses.
  For example, there is a certain distance from the sun to the
  Procyon, what is the unit of that lenght? As a physical
  value, it has no unit! Only when one wants to write it down,
  one has to choose a certain unit system and number system,
  and one can choose every unit system one likes. This is
  an artefact of our notation, not a property of the length.

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