28 Mar
2007
28 Mar
'07
5:41 p.m.
Input is definitely beyond the scope of the library. We have implemented primitive output.... On further thought, we should probably just have an output operator for quantity that prints the value_type then the unit and leave unit output alone.
Again, input and output are fully supported through Boost.Serialization - just not in a format designed for human consumption. I think we need to provide at least a rudimentary system for unit/quantity output for debugging purposes is nothing else. Steven suggested the possibility of boost::lexical_cast, which seems reasonable. Matthias