Re: [boost] [Review] Quantitative Units library review begins today, March 26

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-26 10:05:33

Hi John,

>    In this review, the authors and I expect that there will be active
> discussions on two topics. In every review there is a discussion of  
> the
> quality of the library implementation and documentation, and it is  
> obviously
> expected and desired here. Also, since this library is specifically  
> designed
> as a compile time library with no attempt to provide unit  
> conversions or
> other runtime facilities it is expected that the review will  
> include an
> active thread on whether this is the correct design decision. In  
> specific,
> this  is a different approach than that taken by Andy Little's  
> submission of
> last year.

Just a quick clarification about the library : while there is no  
support of parsing
of unit/quantity input at runtime or for dynamically processing such  
runtime units,
unit conversions are fully supported at compile time...

Matthias