Paul Rubin wrote: > I'm sure this has been done before, but it just struck my fancy, an > example of Python's "emulating numeric types", inspired by the old > Unix "units" utility, and the Frink language.
Oh yeah, it's been done before. Several times over, in fact. Unum http://home.tiscali.be/be052320/Unum.html Caltech's pyre.units http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/projects/pyre/ Konrad Hinsen's Scientific.Physics.PhysicalQuantity http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/ScientificPython/ Will Ware posted one to the list. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/8ed89844218b92c7/0f05aea353c1563d And there was another one announced here sometime in the past year or so, IIRC, but I don't recall the name of it or that of the author. :-( -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
