Re: [boost] Re: Dimensional Analysis

From: Phil Richards (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-28 08:34:48

On 2005-01-28, Sérgio Vale e Pace <svpace.forum_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  Is there any current efford to develop that? the fractional exponents
>  solution has been presented in the Walter Brown´s paper. There is
>  already a requirement set for such library?
>  there is interest in such library?

Might I suggest that you have a look at the boost developer mailing
list archives for "dimensional analysis" and/or "physical quantities"?
(Or bits of those phrases, anyway.)

I'm still recovering from the last discussion about a year or so ago...
I still twitch when I hear "dimensional analysis" and "angle" in the
same sentence.

Simple answer: there were at least three approaches being talked about
a while back, but all of them had perceived limitations by some.
I don't think it was ever agreed what such a library should actually
be capable of - which makes it rather difficult to satisfy everybody :-)

My solution did/does use the MPL (now, anyway), and has fractional
powers, but so did at least one of the others.  I'm using it in a
"proper" (real-world) project, and it does what we need.  But I no
longer have the time to try and put it forward here - maybe when
the baby has grown up a bit :-)

phil
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