Re: [boost] [Review][PQS] Physical QuantitiesSystemreview(May31through June 9)

From: David Greene (greened_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-07 17:11:57

Andy Little wrote:
> "David Greene" wrote
> 
> 
>>I agree, but unfortunately it is not general enough.  See my review
>>concerning the lack of non-power-of-10 prefixes.  I think this
>>library _should_ be a general units framework but it's not there
>>yet.  Until it gets there or there is a plan to get there, it should
>>not be called "units."
> 
> 
> This is theoretically fine.
> In practise I have a very long list of things to do just within the SI 
> framework. Something has to be low priority and because this is well outside the 
> current scope of the library,  non-decimal prefixes is probably going to be low 
> priority unfortunately.

Do you see a clear path to getting there?  If so, perhaps others would
be able to work on it.

                           -Dave