Re: [boost] Boost Units library preview

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-29 16:17:44

Deane Yang wrote:
> Andy Little wrote:
>>> Ben appears to have implemented a core library that I believe has a much
>>> broader range of applications than a physical dimensions library. I have
>>> reason to believe that somewhere inside your library, you have the same
>>> thing implemented.
>> That is not now or for the foreeable future a goal of Quan.
>>
> 
> This sounds reasonable to me. It appears to me that there are two 
> distinct libraries with two distinct sets of applications that we've all 
> been discussing as if they were the same thing. I think Ben, Jeff, and I 
> want the "no pre-defined dimensions" one, while yours is a physical 
> dimensions library.

I agree...seems like there's room for both.  User defined units is a long and 
old debate.  Some of us aren't going to give up on it :-)

Jeff