Deane Yang <deane_yang <at> yahoo.com> writes:
I've taken a quick look at the documentation of Ben's units library and tried to compile it using VC++ 8.0.
Andy Little wrote:
I liked the example in basic.cpp. It compiled and ran OK in gcc4.0 but unfortunately not in VC7.1.
I was unable to get it to compile in VC8.0. It gives errors in the compile-time rational number code (in compile_time_number.hpp).
Could you please post the error message? I only tested it on the lastest mingw.
It looks very close to what I want. The only thing I would like to see is a preferred implementation for explicit conversion between different units of the same dimension. I could probably add this layer to the library myself but was wondering if you've done this already. You mean disallowing implicit conversion? Look at the currency.cpp example. It's a mixure of implicit static conversions (cent <-> euro) and of explicit dynamic conversions (euro <-> dollar <-> yen). An implicit conversion between euro and dollar is not possible.