[phobos] RFC: units type for D

[Benjamin Shropshire]

David Simcha wrote:
>  One comment I want to make is that, if we're going to include this, I 
> have a rational number library on Scrapple that I've been meaning to 
> put up for review for a while.  I noticed that you roll your own 
> somewhat ad-hoc rational numbers for the units type and don't really 
> expose them in any more general way.  IMHO if both rational and the 
> units lib make the cut for Phobos, they should be integrated with each 
> other.  I'll clean up my rational library and do a commit, since it's 
> succumbed to some degree of bit rot.  It's at 
> http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/rational/rational.d.
>

Is it CTFE complaint?

> On 8/25/2010 10:09 AM, Benjamin Shropshire wrote:
>> I have offered up a library that supports statically encoding units 
>> in the type system so as to prevent unit errors (adding distance and 
>> time) and to enforce correct conversions all around.
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3725
>>
>> I'm looking for comments: What's holding it back from inclusion? What 
>> would need to be improved? The API? Better comments? (I haven't 
>> tested it recently so; make it build again?)
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