Re: [Boost-users] [mpl] newbie question

From: Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-25 13:39:20

On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Andy Little wrote:

>
> "Noel Belcourt"  wrote
>
>> I'm just curious but what kind of test are these numbers (30 -> 4
>> seconds) measuring?
>>
>> After buying Dave and Aleksy's MPL book, I went ahead and implemented
>> the
>> quantity<T,D> prototype they proposed to do dimensional analysis, then
>> added
>> unit support, enforcement and conversion, but not automatic conversion
>> and
>> also added support for dimensionless numbers.  I have, in my mind's
>> eye, a very
>> full featured pqs-like system that relies heavily on mpl and I've not
>> seen any sort
>> of compile speed problems like you report.
>
> If that is the case that is great.  Is there any chance of seeing the 
> library?

Yeah, it can be done but it may take a little effort.  There's no
documentation of any kind except for one line comments
preceding the BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT's scattered
throughout the code.  And where do I put it, in the sandbox?

-- Noel