From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-05 19:34:15
"edA-qa mort-ora-y" <eda-qa_at_[hidden]> wrote
> Is there any interest in a library that performs strict type checking on
> values with unit quantities? The intent is to prevent operation and
> assigment of unlike types.
Could take a look here:
http://www.servocomm.freeserve.co.uk/Cpp/physical_quantity/index.html
> The library has a price for performance compared to native value
> operations. However, part of the requirements will be a flag (a #define
> ) that turns off the unit processing for the code, which effectively
> removes the classes (replaces the UnitValue simply with typedefs of the
> stored type).
This is doable in my library at the above link.
(However problems would start to arise if you need prefixed or incoherent
units.)
regards
Andy Little