Robert Kern wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > I'm sure this has been done before, but it just struck my fancy, an > > example of Python's "emulating numeric types", inspired by the old > > Unix "units" utility, and the Frink language. > > Oh yeah, it's been done before. Several times over, in fact.
<cut> > And there was another one announced here sometime in the past year or so, > IIRC, > but I don't recall the name of it or that of the author. :-( Perhaps you are referring to the scalar class at http://RussP.us/scalar.htm The nice thing about this one (which I wrote myself) is that after you do your development and are ready for "production" runs, you can easily disable the unit checks and get the efficiency of built-in numeric types. That can be two orders of magnitude faster! It comes with a complete user manual too (pdf and html). I'm using it for my engineering work, and it's working great! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
