On 2012-11-01, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> ezunits does handle degC and degF in simple cases, e.g. 0 ` degC `` degF,
> but you can easily construct meaningless things like 1 ` degC*m.
Yeah. There is some tension between being entirely consistent and
accommodating common abuses. As it stands, ezunits isn't really one or
the other -- it can't do anything reasonable w/ degC*m nor does it
reject it.
> So I am OK with a units framework which doesn't handle such things.
I dunno -- I would expect users to dismiss a units package which doesn't
handle temperature conversions. I guess I could be wrong about that.
best
Robert Dodier