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

From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-30 10:36:21

On 3/28/07, Matthias Schabel <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I tend to try to name things so they sound right if you read them;
> even though they are used in aerial navigation, as far as I
> understand they are still called nautical miles, so to my eye
> nautical::miles reads right.

This isn't a big issue to me, but it does seem inconsistent.  Yes, the
unit is called "nautical miles", but would you also propose that "US
survey foot" be US::survey::foot?

The precedent you seem to have set with the other unit systems is
system::unit.  I think nautical::miles is inconsistent.

--Michael Fawcett