Re: [boost] Re: SIunits and quantity library concerns

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-05 19:25:11

It showed up in my mailbox. Delays are part of the wonderful world of
high-speed computing. Patience!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Green" <greenthetao_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] Re: SIunits and quantity library concerns

> Hi David:  I'll never again 'bombard' you with my questions.  But I've
attempted to post a question using the Post button and don't see it yet
under messages.  What happened to it?
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> thankyou.
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> Harry
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> >From: "David Abrahams"
> >Reply-To: boost_at_[hidden]
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> >Subject: Re: [boost] Re: SIunits and quantity library concerns
> >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:15:54 -0400
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> > > So I propose we deal with things like cartons_of_apples and a unit
> > > with dimension Ammount, units cartons, and tag apples.
> > > cartons_of_granny_smith_apples would get a second tag to identify them
> > > as granny_smith.
> > >
> > > My initial guess is that multiple tags should generally be handeled by
> > > taging a prevously taged unit. Can someone identify a problem with
> > > requiring multiple tags to be heirarchical?
> > >
> >
> >Watch out, you're treading dangerously close to designing a simplified,
> >under-powered knowledge representation system (see AI research). Once you
> >start trying to handle these things you may find yourself unable to limit
> >the scope of the problems you're solving.
> >
> >On the other hand, I could just be blowing smoke ;-)
> >
> >-Dave
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