RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 14:46:30 UTC, D.Enguiyen wrote:
> Is it able to manage quantities with a non-linear 
> transformations, for example when dealing with octet and byte ?
>
> (1024)!"byte" == 1!"kbyte";

There are no non-linear transformations going on here, following 
usual math terminology.

If your question is whether unit conversions are possible with 
non-power-of-ten factors, the answer is an empathic "yes" – the 
scale factors could even be determined at run-time! The most 
basic solution would be to define a scaled unit like this:

enum kibyte = scale!(byte, 1024, "kibibyte", "kiB");

You would probably want to define a power-of-two PrefixSystem 
though. 
(http://klickverbot.at/code/units/std_units.html#PrefixSystem)

  — David