Re: [boost] Interest in dimension/unit-checking library?

Matt Calabrese wrote:

I'd say it's much more analogous to conversions in C++ from a short unsigned int to an unsigned int being implicit. You don't lose any information in the conversion and the conversion makes perfectly logical sense. Forcing users to always be explicit is just making them write more unecessary code.

OK. I think I'll concede that it's my own fetish, bcause I think implicit casting of int to unsigned int and vice versa is one of the worst "features" of C++. I really, really wish they could make this a compiler option somehow. But even then I couldn't use it, because nothing in the standard library would compile.