[boost] Re: Dimensional Analysis Interest?

From: Fredrik Blomqvist (fredrik_blomqvist_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-08 16:31:08

David Richardson wrote:
> Is there any interest in a class for compile time checking of
> dimensional correctness of arithmetic expressions?  It is a great
> debugging aid for scientific and engineering code.
>
Yes!
FYI here's a link to a boost wiki-page containing pointers to several other
similar attempts. There have been som discussions about this issue here at
boost previously (hmm, seems like about year ago.. time flies...). Dig it up
in the archives.
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?DimensionsAndUnits

Regards
// Fredrik