[ODE] Re: XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?

[Matthew D. Hancher]

Oh yeah, I meant to say, since I was writing the list anyway, that 
I too vote for picking only one of radians or degrees.

I'd also vote weakly for radians, to make it more plausible that a
program could save the ODE state to an XODE file and read it back 
identically.  (Obviously there are some floating point / ASCII 
issues they'd need to resolve, but if you don't even use the 
same scale that ODE uses internally then it's pretty much a lost 
cause.)

mdh

Matthew D. Hancher
NASA Ames Research Center
Official: mdh at email.arc.nasa.gov
Personal: mdh at media.mit.edu

Will wrote:
> Could I get some opinions please on whether you think XODE should
> support expressing angles in degrees as well as radians?  Currently it's
> radians only, but I don't think it would place a great burden on
> importers if it was possible to specify that the angles were in
> degrees.  Like with transforms, I think we would force the user to
> choose one method and stick to it throughout the world.  
> 
> Does anyone want or need this feature or think it's a bad idea?