[boost] Re: Dimensional Analysis Interest?

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-10 08:51:53

Jeff,

"Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20031010123559.M60391_at_crystalclearsoftware.com...
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:23:11 -0400, 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.
>
> David -
>
> Sorry for the slow response, but I think there is certainly an interest in
a
> units library for boost.  There have been several discussions, but no one
> willing to spend the time doing the work.  Before spending too much time
> getting ready for formal review you will want to upload a preliminary
> submission for folks to evaluate and discuss.  Typically libraries get
evolved
> before they get reviewed and accepted.

Would you see the Date-Time library being subsumed by a "Units of Measure"
library? I'm sure a lot was learned in that endeavor. What difficulties
would you foresee? My intuition is that the complexities associated with
date-time measures are on a similar order for the other fundamental
quantities of mass, length,...

-- 
Jeff Flinn
Applied Dynamics, International