RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

[Nicolas Sicard]

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 22:49:57 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 21:41:57 UTC, Kelet wrote:
>> Tangentially related: https://github.com/biozic/quantities
>
> Impressive!
>
> This seems similar to David Nadlingers std.units and std.si.
>
> When will all these efforts on implementing Units/SI be 
> synchronized and reviewed?
>
> One question:
>
> I know what angles are but I have never seen them defined like 
> this before!
>
> enum radian = meter / meter; // ditto
> enum steradian = square(meter) / square(meter); /// ditto
>
> What on earth does this mean?
>
> /Per

Thanks! I think David Nadlingers' is more elaborate (scaled and
affine units) and less prone to rounding errors. I haven't used
it yet. Mine is more basic but has a parsing system that I use to
define units quickly at compile-time and parse data files at
runtime.

--
Nicolas