On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:50 PM, Andy Little wrote:
This is merely because the use cases are potentially pretty wide. In the review I made it clear that I was limiting the scope of Quan to the SI unit system, because that is the one I understand. If I resubmitted the library it could be rejected as not being generic enough and there are inklings from this thread that this may be the reaction. But I don't have the time or the knowledge to write a truly generic physical quantities library and if that is the requirement then there isnt much point in resubmitting Quan for another review AFAICS.
Can the dimension checking part of the library be used without the SI unit system? For most other unit systems I use, I mainly need dimension checking and not conversions between different units, such as km or m? Thus just a quantity with dimensions would be useful to catch programming errors. Matthias