-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Michael Fawcett Sent: 30 March 2007 15:36 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Quantitative Units library review begins today,March 26
On 3/28/07, Matthias Schabel <boost@schabel-family.org> wrote:
I tend to try to name things so they sound right if you read them; even though they are used in aerial navigation, as far as I understand they are still called nautical miles, so to my eye nautical::miles reads right.
This isn't a big issue to me, but it does seem inconsistent. Yes, the unit is called "nautical miles", but would you also propose that "US survey foot" be US::survey::foot?
Surely it should be US::survey::feet ;-)) which I feel is a sort of reductio ad absurdum argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum for keeping everything singular? Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com