Re: [boost] Quantity libraries: SIunits

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-10 10:49:58

From: Paul A. Bristow <boost_at_[hidden]>
> I believe that this is definitely the system to go for.  It meets all
> reasonable needs, except ...
> 
> those of us stuck with MSVC++ will have to manage without for now?

No doubt some desperate and fiendishly clever Booster's will
find a way to get this code "working" on MSVC++.

> Should we use this as a 'gauntlet' to throw down to challenge Microsoft -
> "make your compiler compliant enough to compile (and run!) this code!".

Yes!

> (or else take the C++ label off the product!)

When Hell freezes over.  I frequently see ignorant reporters
decribe C++ as "the Microsoft language," as opposed to "the
Sun language, Java."

> Paul
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wb_at_[hidden] [mailto:wb_at_[hidden]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:37 PM
> > To: boost_at_[hidden]
> > Subject: [boost] Quantity libraries: SIunits
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> > In anticipation of my return to the office, I have posted to
> > http://home.fnal.gov/~wb/SItempl8.pdf
> > a "pre-print" version of the paper that I will be presenting at the
> > Template Programming Workshop at OOPSLA in October.
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