Re: [boost] Interest in dimension/unit-checking library?

From: Phil Richards (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-21 05:29:00

On 2005-10-20, Deane Yang <deane_yang_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  Matt Calabrese wrote:
> > I'd say it's much more analogous to conversions in C++ from a short unsigned
> > int to an unsigned int being implicit. You don't lose any information in the
> > conversion and the conversion makes perfectly logical sense.

Yes, but C++ allows implicit conversion of int to float/short/char,
too, so perhaps C++ isn't the best example to use...

> > Forcing users
> > to always be explicit is just making them write more unecessary code.
>  OK. I think I'll concede that it's my own fetish, bcause I think 
>  implicit casting of int to unsigned int and vice versa is one of the 
>  worst "features" of C++. I really, really wish they could make this a 
>  compiler option somehow. But even then I couldn't use it, because 
>  nothing in the standard library would compile.

It's not just your fetish.  I agree with you completely (on all
points).

phil
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