[Python-ideas] SI scale factors alone, without units or dimensional analysis

[Ryan Birmingham]

I'd certainly be interested in hearing about how this has worked with C++,
but this would certainly make scientific code less easy to misuse due to
unclear units.

-Ryan Birmingham

On 28 October 2016 at 16:45, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

> On 28.10.2016 22:06, MRAB wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-26 13:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> Ken has made what I consider a very reasonable suggestion, to introduce
>>> SI prefixes to Python syntax for numbers. For example, typing 1K will be
>>> equivalent to 1000.
>>>
>>> Just for the record, this is what you can now do in C++:
>>
>> User-Defined Literals
>> http://arne-mertz.de/2016/10/modern-c-features-user-defined-literals/
>>
>
> Nice to hear. :)
>
> They now have 5 years of experience with that. Are there any surveys,
> experience reports, etc.?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
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