Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: quantity libraries

From: Ross Smith (ross.s_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-30 16:09:27

Anatoli Tubman wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 17:48, Kevlin Henney wrote:
> > The metre is a base unit not a derived unit.
> 
> Oops! My bad.
> 
> Still it is defined in terms of something else, so it's no
> better than inch in this respect. Which is immaterial anyway.
> 
> I'm still asking: given that different users want different
> units, and it's possible to give everyone what they want without
> harming anyone, why insist on a SI-only library?

For exactly the same reason we insist on code that conforms to ISO 14882
instead of taking advantage of assorted GNU/Microsoft/Sun/etc
extensions. It's the _standard_.

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