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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/05
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Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> writes:
> And some good way to handle units.  So that we could safely say things like:
>      speed := 37.miles / 1.5.hours;

There is already a very good way to handle units, without any runtime
overhead if you don't need to determine units dynamically.

See Barton & Nackman, _Scientific and Engineering C++_.