Re: [boost] [Review] Quantitative Units

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-03 23:12:46

>> We have defined our own custom units and found their use to be  
>> identical
>> to those provided by the library. We would like to see quantities
>> defined using derived SI units printed using the derived units  
>> instead
>> of the base units (W/m^2 instead of Kg/s^3).
>
> Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this. (should it be
> joule/meter^2 second, newton/meter second, or pascal meter/second?)

It may be possible to determine the most parsimonious combination of  
named SI units, but I suspect that doing so would incur a significant  
amount of runtime overhead on all output operations...

Matthias