Re: [boost] Re: physical quantities (was: runtime unit-modifiable ...)

From: Anatoli Tubman (anatoli_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-08 05:17:23

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:53, Daniel Frey wrote:

> Definitly. Why isn't the current operator ^ spelled ~ anyway? Then ^
> could have the right precedence and meaning. Think of m/s^2. Damn
> C-ompatibility ;)

Alas, this won't help because m^2 and m^3 should have different types.
One needs an ability to overload on integral constant expressions:

unit::m2 operator^ (unit::m x, 2) { ... }
unit::m3 operator^ (unit::m x, 3) { ... }

;)
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