From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-24T00:16:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Units

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Peter Vanbroekhoven wrote:

> On 8/23/06, Kevin Olbrich <devlists-ruby-talk@devlists.com> wrote:
>> Hey, amazing all the interesting stuff that pops up when you know where
>> to look for it.
>> 
>> After a 15 minute look, I can see some issues with the current version
>> of Units in facets.
>> 
>> 1. It doesn't implement Comparable.
>>    1.cm < 2.m  #=> throws an exception in Facets
>>    "1 cm".unit < "2 m".unit  #=> returns true in ruby-units
>> 
>> 2. The binary prefixes are incorrect (at least in the RDoc).  They
>> should be like 'kibi = 2**10' and 'mebi = 2**20'.

can anyone comment on units vs

   http://narray.rubyforge.org/quanty/quanty-en.html

??


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