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From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-31 05:43:00
>-----Original Message-----
>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric Lemings
>Sent: 31 March 2007 00:27
>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>Subject: Re: [boost] units: review
>'2.0 * pi' is a logical expression. '2.0 * seconds' is not and I
>can't imagine how anyone can think such an expression is "good design".
Ideally we'd have more 'squiggles' for more operators, but the ASCII char set doesn't permit this - C++ has used them all already.
Blame it all on paper tape ;-)
Paul
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