[Python-ideas] SI scale factors in Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 03:23:24PM -0700, Ken Kundert wrote:

> Second, I concede that there is some chance that users may be lulled into 
> a false sense of complacency and that some dimensional errors would get missed 
> by these otherwise normally very diligent users. But I would point out that 
> I have been intensively using and supporting languages that provide this feature 
> for 40 years and have never seen it.

In your first post, you said that there were no languages at all 
that supported units as a language feature, and suggested that Python 
should lead the way here:

  I find it a little shocking that no programming languages offer this
  feature yet

Now you say you've been using these "languages" plural for forty years.
Would you like to rephrase your claim? I am unable to reconcile the 
discrepency.

(There are three languages that I know of that support units as a first 
class language feature, RPL, Frink and Fortress. None of them are 40 
years old.)



-- 
Steve