On 2005-01-28, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
The fact that units is required and important shouldn't inhibit the utility of a dimensional analysis library. Ideally, a units library would depend on a dimensional analysis library. But a dimensional analysis library should be able to stand on its own.
Indeed it does. I use one every day... we don't care about unit conversions because we don't do any. We also don't care about anything but 4 of the dimensions, so that's all we use. (We could use more - it is just an mpl::vector of fractional powers.) Still, as I said, agreement couldn't be achieved last time round on pretty much anything, and life is too short to discuss whether angle should, or shouldn't, be able to be treated as a dimension that sometimes is, or isn't, dimensionless... *shudder* phil -- change name before "@" to "phil" for email