[boost] Re: Interest in strict unit style typing for physics/sciencecalculations

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-05 19:34:15

"edA-qa mort-ora-y" <eda-qa_at_[hidden]> wrote

> Is there any interest in a library that performs strict type checking on
> values with unit quantities?  The intent is to prevent operation and
> assigment of unlike types.

Could take a look here:

http://www.servocomm.freeserve.co.uk/Cpp/physical_quantity/index.html

> The library has a price for performance compared to native value
> operations.  However, part of the requirements will be a flag (a #define
> ) that turns off the unit processing for the code, which effectively
> removes the classes (replaces the UnitValue simply with typedefs of the
> stored type).

This is doable in my library at the above link.
(However problems would start to arise if you need prefixed or incoherent
units.)

regards
Andy Little