RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

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On Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 16:44:10 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Recently, I have been playing around with a little units of 
> measurement system in D. As this topic has already been brought 
> up quite a number of times here, I thought I would put my 
> implementation up for discussion here.
>
> When this topic came up previously, it has been proposed to 
> include units support with Phobos, and thus I have merged my 
> work into my Phobos fork. Please note, however, that even if we 
> should come to the conclusion that we really want something 
> like this in Phobos, this is not a formal review request yet. 
> There are still a couple of items left on my to-do list, but 
> I'd like to get some feedback first.
>
> Anyway, here is a link to the code: 
> https://github.com/klickverbot/phobos/tree/units (std/units.d 
> and std/si.d). Also, I put up a build of the DDoc output at 
> http://klickverbot.at/code/units/std_units.html resp. 
> http://klickverbot.at/code/units/std_si.html.
>
>
>
> David

Impressive! I like the idea, in special when you can handled 
derived units and doing conversions like this :

convert!(kilo(newton))(2000000 * gram * meter / pow!2(second)));