[Ns-bugs] [Bug 441] Is the name Scalar appropriate?

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=441


Craig Dowell <craigdo at ee.washington.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
           Priority|P1                          |P5
         Resolution|FIXED                       |
            Summary|Multiplying a scalar by a   |Is the name Scalar
                   |Time instead of by a Scalar |appropriate?




--- Comment #6 from Craig Dowell <craigdo at ee.washington.edu>  2008-12-10 17:04:05 EDT ---
It may be another situation reminiscent of vecteur velocite, but the type
Scalar seemed odd to me.  When I read scalar, I tend to think of scalars,
vectors and tensors.  This leads me (at least) off into a completely wrong line
of thought about what Scalar is all about.

I think we have a Vector and a Scalar classl but they have absolutely nothing
to do with each other ... 

Perhaps since there are no public intances of the use of the type Scalar, we
can intercept this and call it something else?

>From the doxygen, it seems that the implication is that this type is used to
scale Time.  Scaler would be closer to what it does, but that is just
super-confusing.

It seems to me that it is really something along the lines of a "dimensionless
temporary variable with sufficient precision to store intermediate results of a
Time computation."  

Off the top of my head I can come up with:

IntermediateTime
TemporaryTime
TimeTemp
DimensionlessTime (oxymoron?)

Scalar really confuses me.


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