Re: [boost] formal review request : mcs::units

From: Ben FrantzDale (benfrantzdale_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-07 12:07:00

It looks good and is something I would use. I haven't had a chance to try it
out, though.

As I've mentioned, this would be especially useful with the ability to
combine accumulators. The usage I'm dreaming of is this:

  accumulator_set<double, stats<tag::mean, tag::moment<2> > > acc;
   acc = for_each(foo.begin(), foo.end(), acc);
   mpi::all_reduce(world, acc);
   // Now acc has seen all elements of foo on all MPI nodes.

I'm eager to see it in action.

—Ben

On 2/6/07, Matthias Schabel <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I hope I'm not running the risk of inducing Boost Unit burnout by
> making this request shortly after the
> review of Andy Little's proposal to add dimensional analysis and
> units to Boost...I'm hoping that the interest
> level will stay high enough to pull through one more review.  Since
> the input from the recent
> informal review seems to have petered out, and I believe I've
> addressed the majority of the
> issues raised, this seems like an appropriate time to request a
> formal review of mcs::units.
> An issue that does concern me is feature creep - in the past, there
> seems to have been
> an ever-growing cycle of increasingly complex feature requests/needs/
> desires. To try to focus the
> review, here is a summary of the intended scope of the library:
>
> mcs::units is a library providing zero-runtime overhead dimensional
> analysis for unit and quantity
> calculations. It provides support for
>
> 1) unit systems comprised of arbitrary sets of base units
> 2) arbitrary user-defined value types
> 3) support for heterogenous operator algebras (i.e. Z op(X,Y))
> 4) support for basic outputting of quantities
> 5) optional support for implicit unit conversions
>
> It does not support
>
> 1) runtime units or quantities
> 2) input or parsing of quantities
>
> The most recent version (mcs_units_v0.5.7.zip) is in the Boost Vault
> (http://www.boost-consulting.org/vault/),
> in the Units directory. As always, comments/suggestions/requests are
> welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthias
>
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