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From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-26 10:05:33
Hi John,
> In this review, the authors and I expect that there will be active
> discussions on two topics. In every review there is a discussion of
> the
> quality of the library implementation and documentation, and it is
> obviously
> expected and desired here. Also, since this library is specifically
> designed
> as a compile time library with no attempt to provide unit
> conversions or
> other runtime facilities it is expected that the review will
> include an
> active thread on whether this is the correct design decision. In
> specific,
> this is a different approach than that taken by Andy Little's
> submission of
> last year.
Just a quick clarification about the library : while there is no
support of parsing
of unit/quantity input at runtime or for dynamically processing such
runtime units,
unit conversions are fully supported at compile time...
Matthias