C++: Checking units at compile time (2003)

[wfunction]

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1429028

[BenFrantzDale]

Also: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/doc/html/boost_units.ht...

[rsorrel]

Stroustrup discusses compile time units (starting at slide 19) in the following presentation:

http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/events/GoingNative12/GN12Cpp11S...

[im3w1l]

Nice trick. One thing bothers me, couldn't the compiler use operator float and the construct from float for non-matching units?

[coyotebush → im3w1l]

I believe using those together counts as two user-defined conversions and is rejected. But one or both of those might as well be declared explicit.

[marvy]

here is something harder: http://yosefk.com/blog/can-your-static-type-system-handle-li...