Re: [Boost-users] [units] Question about user-defined value types

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [units] Question about user-defined value types
From: alfC (alfredo.correa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-21 22:45:35

On Friday, January 20, 2012 8:06:46 AM UTC-8, W Z wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I am using boost units library for a project in which I need to define 
> quantities using rational numbers. I have a rational number class but am 
> having trouble integrating it with units library. There seems to be a lot 
> of places where the units library implementation assumes that the 
> conversion values are expressed as double type. Is there a good way to get 
> around this to make units library support rational numbers?
>

Can you post a particular example? Does you rational type model a double 
type? what operation is that boost.units need and your class doesn't have?

Thanks,
Alfredo