On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Björn Buckwalter wrote:
Secondly, I feel that "Dimensional" is to vague and ambiguous, in particular it could just as well refer to dimensions in the linear algebra sense as physical dimensions. I'd like a more specific and perhaps less pretentious name for the library. This is where I would appreciate some feedback as to what would be appropriate. Some suggestions are:
- Numeric.Units - Numeric.PhysicalUnits - Numeric.PhysicalDimensions - Numeric.SI - Numeric.SIUnits - Numeric.Units.Static
It's certainly a good idea to distinguish between static and dynamic implementations. Incidentally, my implementation of numbers with units uses dynamic unit checking. It is also implemented in a generic way for any unit system, but has a specialisation for SI units. Currently it does not adhere to standard top-level module names (which are these and why?) but this could be changed. I use: Number/Physical.hs Number/Physical/Read.hs Number/Physical/Show.hs Number/Physical/Unit.hs Number/Physical/UnitDatabase.hs Number/SI.hs Number/SI/Unit.hs To be compatible with your library, the module names should contain some hint to their dynamic nature. See: http://darcs.haskell.org/numericprelude/src/Number/