Expressing 2- and 3-D coordinates

Martin Hill mch at roe.ac.uk
Fri Dec 16 03:42:27 PST 2005


Arnold Rots wrote:
> ...we have three options:
> 
> a. STC sticks with list types and VOEvent may do something else.
> 
> b. STC temporarily converts to enumerating the vector components as in
>    my first message, and changes back to list types when list support
>    is firmly there.
> 
> c. STC converts permanently to separate the components witin the
>    vector element.
> 
> Comments?

Yes. Don't use lists (in any form) for coordinates!  You're only making 
it harder for yourselves...

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Martin Hill
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