On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:43 PM, rustom <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 29, 5:32 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Malcolm McLean >> <malcolm.mcle...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> > On Sep 27, 9:29 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) >> > wrote: >> >> On the other hand, with the dynamic typing mindset, you might even wrap >> >> your values (of whatever numerical type) in a symbolic expression >> >> mentionning the unit and perhaps other meta data, so that when the other >> >> module receives it, it may notice (dynamically) that two values are not >> >> of the same unit, but if compatible, it could (dynamically) convert into >> >> the expected unit. Mission saved! >> >> > I'd like to design a language like this. If you add a quantity in >> > inches to a quantity in centimetres you get a quantity in (say) >> > metres. If you multiply them together you get an area, if you divide >> > them you get a dimeionless scalar. If you divide a quantity in metres >> > by a quantity in seconds you get a velocity, if you try to subtract >> > them you get an error. >> >> Sounds just like Frink: >> http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/ > > A currently developed language with units is curl: see > http://developers.curl.com/userdocs/docs/en/dguide/quantities-basic.html
Frink's most recent version is only 17 days old. (You seemed to imply Frink isn't under active development.) Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
