[yt-dev] Milliparsecs

Cameron Hummels chummels at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 17:52:34 PST 2013


I'm +0 on having mpc map to Mpc.  I think this is a good situation where we
could have a note in the docs about the case-sensitivity of units in the
gotchas section of units or fields or some such.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, j s oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, count me as a not terribly passionate -1. I think the idea that
> coding around the habits of certain subsets of users of yt has gotten us
> into trouble in the past, and I'm wary of doing it here. While this is
> certainly not a huge deal, I personally prefer that we be stricter about
> units standards. However, I totally understand that milliparsecs is not
> used by anyone. And of course, parsecs are not SI to begin with, so I
> suppose from a PURELY logical standpoint, we aren't necessarily bound by
> their prefix conventions.
>
> j
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> -0
>>
>> I'd rather we all just use Mpc, but I'll go along with it.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Here is the change:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/ngoldbaum/yt/commits/2e6d536ffa1976e4699093c4bb3b3bc4ade3f9da
>>>
>>> We'll definitely be leaving 'm' -> 'milli' alone.  FWIW, we already do
>>> this by mapping 'mpc' -> 'Mpc' in plot labels.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, then I will put my anal personality (which would never agree to
>>>> such a thing) aside and say I'm cool with this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Britton,
>>>>>
>>>>> This would be in the units refactor of yt-3.0, and would *only* apply
>>>>> to parsecs.  This would be the exclusive special case of m[some unit]
>>>>> meaning Mega.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi Matt,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Where exactly is this?  Is this in yt-3.0, and if so, would this
>>>>> apply to
>>>>> > all uses of m as milli?  Is that is so, then my concern is for when
>>>>> yt
>>>>> > becomes more used by other domains that actually do have a valid use
>>>>> for
>>>>> > milli.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Britton
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Hi all,
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Nathan and I are working on some unit things.  One that came up is
>>>>> >> that it looked like the conversion to mpc was wrong.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Turns out, it's not.  But what it's set up as is "mpc" for
>>>>> >> "milliparsecs" and "Mpc" for "Megaparsecs."  We'd like to get rid of
>>>>> >> any usage of milliparsecs, since I think the number of people who
>>>>> want
>>>>> >> to use that (globally) are probably between 0 and 0, and just make
>>>>> Mpc
>>>>> >> and mpc the same thing.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> If anybody objects, write back.  Silence will be taken as tacit
>>>>> agreement!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> -Matt
>>>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>>>> >> yt-dev mailing list
>>>>> >> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>>>> >> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > _______________________________________________
>>>>> > yt-dev mailing list
>>>>> > yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>>>> > http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>>>> >
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> yt-dev mailing list
>>>>> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>>>> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> yt-dev mailing list
>>>> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>>> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> yt-dev mailing list
>>> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> yt-dev mailing list
>> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> yt-dev mailing list
> yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
>
>


-- 
Cameron Hummels
Postdoctoral Researcher
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
http://chummels.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/attachments/20131202/78903d88/attachment.html>


More information about the yt-dev mailing list