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[boost] Re: [math constants] a new approach (perhaps)
by Daniel Frey other posts by this author
Mar 1 2004 10:18AM messages near this date
[boost] Re: [math constants] a new approach (perhaps) | [boost] Re: [math constants] C++ Language gurus views needed and Codewarrior & Comeau testers
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>  Yes, of course. BTW, I've attached the file since
>  my messages seems to format the code like ****.
>  
>  br
>  
>  Thorsten

With no offense intended, but that's a very simple version which doesn't 
work in many situations. The problems of your solution are:

- Doesn't work well for UDTs (try std::complex, some conversions are 
ambiguous then)
- Doesn't scale for new types (you need to know all of them in the 
single header that defines the constant)
- Doesn't work for more complex expressions (pi*pi*t instead of T(pi)*pi*t)
- Doesn't work for function calls (srqt(pi)*t instead of sqrt(T(pi))*t)
- Doesn't solve the naming dilemma (how to spell the constant "pi*pi"?)
- Doesn't work well with unit libraries AFAICS (again not scaling well)

I really suggest you look at my code at 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/MathConstants/> , which solves 
all of the above points. Feel free to ask questions.

Regards, Daniel

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Daniel Frey

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