D Language 2.0

[retard]

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:43:54 +0000, BCS wrote:

> Hello Walter,
> 
>> Daniel wrote:
>> 
>>> I also kind of hoped we'd see standard real world unit types in D.
>>> Like sqft, meters, ohms, kg, L, Hz, seconds,
>>> 
>>> etc. native to D.  Being able to intrinsically convert types between
>>> these things would make D the most
>>> 
>>> approachable General Programming Language for real world problems.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
>> Here it is:
>> 
>> // by Oskar Linde Aug 2006
> 
> It might be a case of NIH, but that doesn't handle fractional units (for
> example MPa*m^1/2 is used in fracture mechanics and I suspect that they
> are fairly common as intermediate values in solving equations in odd
> directions).

You can fix that by encoding the power of each unit as a fraction. No big 
deal. That's a good observation, though.