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

From: Steven Watanabe (steven_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-26 17:24:47

AMDG

Deane Yang <deane_yang <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Please take everything I say with a gigantic salt crystal, but I would 
> want to forbid an expression like "inches * miles / furlongs". You might 
> recall that I am one of the few who wants explicit unit casting.

I prefer explicit too.  The expression "inches * miles / furlongs"
doesn't do any conversion.  It returns a type that encodes the combination.
If you want the result in inches you have to explicitly cast.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe