Re: [ublas] Extending type_traits for use with Boost Units

Subject: Re: [ublas] Extending type_traits for use with Boost Units
From: Gunter Winkler (guwi17_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-03 18:35:03

Am Wednesday 26 August 2009 schrieb Manoj Rajagopalan:
> Hi UBLAS developers,
>
>   I have begun using Boost Units which was introduced in boost v
> 1.36. I am working on extending UBLAS to support physically
> dimensioned types and I have provided a short example below.
>
>    This can be achieved efficiently if a few extensions to UBLAS
> type_traits are allowed and I was wondering if anyone would object to
> this. An example of such an extension would be the introduction of
> "sqrt_type" as the type for the square root operation.  This would be
> the return type for type_traits<T>::type_sqrt(). For arithmetic types
> like float and double the template can be partially specialized so
> that sqrt_type is float or double but for physically dimensioned
> types like quantity<length,double>, sqrt_type can be set to
> quantity<length^(1/2), double>.

This is a good idea. Could you prepare a patch and a small example 
program? 

>     I have already adapted most of vector_expression.hpp for use with
> these dimensioned quantities with work-arounds for these extensions
> but this is getting ugly and unwieldy.

is it possible to deduct the square_type from operator*()? E.g., using 
return type deduction (see detail/returntype_deduction and 
promote_traits from traits.hpp)

mfg
Gunter