Re: [boost] Re: Quantity Library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-20 08:33:34

At 02:28 PM 4/19/2003, Pavel Vozenilek wrote:

 >  b7- ability to distinguish different types of the same dimension (e.g.
 >width of image and width of screen)

Other examples: It should be an error to try to add gallons of gasoline to 
gallons of propane. Not to mention trying to add gallons of unleaded 
regular gasoline to unleaded premium gasoline. Except that for certain 
purposes "hash totals" for example) there must be a way to do the otherwise 
illegal operation.

--Beman