Re: [boost] Re: Quantity libraries: SIunits

From: Dean Foster (foster_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-15 07:20:36

> From: "Eric Ford" <eford_at_[hidden]>
> 
> That's fine.  But the compiler needs to know that that expression
> returns an energy and allow assignment of that expression to any
> variable with dimensions of energy, regardless of what units the three
> quantities are expressed in.

So you are in agreement that the units themselves aren't of great
importance to the programmer in these settings?  Just the dimensions?  

dean

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