On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 06:48, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/22 10:17, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 02:59, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> >> But if I did that, then one lib registering my units with the global 
> >> repository might break some other lib's use of the global repository.
> >
> > Then... libraries should not register units unless it's at the behest
> > of the application? That's exactly what I've been saying.
>
> If the library cannot register its version of units, how can it use units 
> internally?
>

Probably the same way that it's always been possible - with clunkier
syntax and explicit multiplications. I'm not sure. Do you actually
have a use-case where a library needs to do unit-aware arithmetic
independently of the application, or is this purely hypothetical?

ChrisA
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