On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:42:16PM -0400, Ricky Teachey wrote: > I was cheerleading this effort earlier and I still think it would be a > massive contribution to needs of the engineering world to solve this > problem at the language level. But boy howdy is it a tough but of a problem > to crack.
More than 35 years of prior art says hello. My HP-28C calculator supported unit conversion in the mid 1980s, and a few years later HP were offering calculators that supported arithmetic on units. If you want to see some prior art, check out the chapters on Units here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150608024051/http://www.hp41.net/forum/fileshp41net/hp28sref.pdf http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00442266.pdf If you are on a Linux or Unix system, you can check out the "units" program: [steve@ando ~]$ units "3 ounces * 200 furlongs per fortnight" "kg m/s" * 0.0028288774 / 353.49711 Then there is also Frink: https://frinklang.org/ -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OXH2QSXI6OTA7ZOJO4H4QX5NGDJZGIWP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
