sexagesimal

[Roy Williams]

> I'm really not sure what the question is anymore.

The question is how to recognize that a string is actually  
sexagesimal coordinates. If a text box on a form allows coordinates  
or object name, how can code be written to decide what it is.

The answer I am seeing is that you spend 3 days writing 500 lines of  
Perl to disambiguate the numerous symbols and endless lemmas and  
codicils, then you fight like hell to keep that code useful by  
refusing to constrain the sexagesimal format even in the slightest,  
and forcing every other developer to go through the same 3 day  
bootcamp that you did.

Roy



California Institute of Technology
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