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Initial Cut of Unit-Aware Value System ( Length ) #5

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joeyame opened this issue Jul 25, 2022 · 1 comment
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Initial Cut of Unit-Aware Value System ( Length ) #5

joeyame opened this issue Jul 25, 2022 · 1 comment
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joeyame commented Jul 25, 2022

Part of making a good, easy to use sim framework mandates a physical value-tracking system that ensures unit-safe operations.

Such a system should have 3 properties (for now just assume length):

  1. Lengths can be added, subtracted from each other.
  2. Lengths can be scaled by a given unitless factor.
  3. Trying to multiply lengths together causes an error ( no Area types exist yet )
  4. We can pull any length unit out of a Length object and it will automatically convert as needed (1m.get(feet) == 3.28084)
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joeyame commented Jul 26, 2022

Investigate:

  1. https://crates.io/crates/quantities
  2. https://crates.io/crates/fts_units
  3. https://crates.io/crates/dimensioned

These libraries either provide their own units, or give devs the ability to define their own.

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