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

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-11 18:59:00

"Matthias Schabel" <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:9BD430DC-4484-11D8-8726-000393DC6706_at_schabel-family.org...
> 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.

Amen!

regards
Andy Little