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

From: Dave Gomboc (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-14 06:12:00

> > 10 kelvins / 5 kelvins gives 2 kelvins, but 10 degrees Celsius / 5 

Correction: 10 kelvins / 5 gives ... and 10 degress Celsius / 5 gives
...

Dave

> > Is there an intent for any of these proposed dimensional and unit 
> > libraries to restrict the types of operations being performed 
> > according to the scale of measurement that the unit belongs 
> to?  e.g. 
> > 10 kelvins / 5 kelvins gives 2 kelvins, but 10 degrees Celsius / 5 
> > degrees Celsius gives not only 2 degrees Celsius but also a 
> compiler 
> > warning? :-)  (An error would be too severe -- it's pretty 
> common for 
> > social scientists to take means of ordinal data.)