[Haskell-cafe] ANN: engineering-units-0.0.1

[adam vogt]

Hello,

There are many libraries mentioned here too:
<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Physical_units>. I don't know of a
good comparison of the various options for runtime and compile-time
checked units.

Regards,
Adam

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Douglas McClean
<douglas.mcclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may also be interested in the various flavors of Björn Buckwalter's
> dimensional library.
>
> On hackage it's dimensional-tf (for type families, and my preference) or
> dimensional (for multi-parameter type classes).
>
> We are working on making a version that takes advantage of the new GHC
> DataKinds features to provide even more features, that's at
> https://github.com/bjornbm/dimensional-dk.
>
>
> -Doug
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Iustin Pop <iusty at k1024.org> wrote:
>> > Looking at your documentation, I see a lot of sense behind implementing
>> > different units (Horsepower vs. Watts), but I'm not so sure about (for
>> > example) g/kg or m/cm/mm. These are just (SI) scaling factors, so should
>> > they be treated the same as individual units?
>>
>> Depends on if the difference shows up to the user. I've been using a
>> calculator/scripting language (Frink) for years that has this kind of
>> facility, and while I know that they are just scaling factors, I still
>> treat them as different types of units. That may be because I grew up
>> using imperial units, and inches/feet/yards/miles don't allow for
>> being treated that way.
>>
>> > For just the scaling factors, I released last year
>> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/prefix-units, and I'm wondering if we
>> > couldn't somehow combine these two libraries. After all, "k" applies
>> > both to KG and KW :)
>>
>> Yes, but "KV" is not _always_ a kilovolt. When used on an electrical
>> motor, it's a measure of how many thousands of RPM you can expect the
>> motor to turn when for each volt of power it's fed. I'm hoping to get
>> around to desiging the power system for a multirotor this year, and
>> will be interesetd to see how various tools deal with this issue.
>>
>>    <mike
>>
>>
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