Re: [boost] Re: Units libraries... (long reply)

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-11 17:22:14

While all this discussion about abstract qualities that a dimensional  
analysis/units library
should have is interesting off and on, from the standpoint of an  
implementer I think it would
be vastly more useful for prospective users of such a library to  
produce syntactically correct
C++ snippets of how they envision the library functioning.  Both  
desired functionality/syntax
and potential errors that should be caught would be useful test cases.   
It would make things
much simpler than trying to hit a diffuse cloud of vaguely conceptual  
meanderings and I
think could also help to keep the discussion more tightly focused on  
implementation/interface
issues most salient to Boost.

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