On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Aleksei Guzev wrote: > And what about types for meters, miles, feets etc. Automatic convertion > while assignment whould be useful. But language should support constants > of that type. Maybe use letters after digits: 10mm, 15cm, 5,8miles, > 4.45kg, 35%. class Numeric def mm Millimeters.new(self) end def cm Centimeters.new(self) end ... end 10.mm 15.cm 5.8.miles ... Good enough?