[boost] Re: Math constants - updated.

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-17 10:52:53

Paul A Bristow wrote:
> | > The current state also lacks extensibility. It is not 
> | acceptable to rely
> | > on an external code generator. We have a great preprocessor 
> | library for
> | > jobs like this one. It is desirable to have user-defined 
> | constants for 
> | > arbitrary types, which can be defined from within user code 
> | on-the-fly, 
> | > using a self-contained code generator.
> | > 
> | 
> | This sounds like a pretty cool idea to me.
> 
> Well cool indeed - provided the preprocessor can do 50 decimal digit
> accuracy floating point ;-)
> 
> So far macros seem to be struggling with ANY floating point calculations!
> 

The preprocessor is only used for pasting in my example, no calculations are 
involved - the precision of the values depends on the quality of the input.

A misunderstanding ??

Regards,

Tobias