[swift-users] Dimensional analysis

[Howard Lovatt]

Another feature I would like would be a dimensions wrapper for an array. So
that I can mark all values in the array as having the same units, rather
than mark each individual element as having a particular unit.

It is conceivable that wrapping each element, both performance and memory
wise, is OK depending on implementation. However my experience with
Mathematica's Quantity is that wrapping each element is a significant
overhead. Therefore I would like a dimensioned array.

As an aside. It might be a lot easier to write an array wrapper when we get
Conditional Conformance To Protocols with the improved generics slated for
Swift 4.1. Therefore it might be worth waiting until 4.1. before attempting
a dimensioned array.

  -- Howard.

On 1 December 2016 at 01:17, Maury Markowitz via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> Let me add my support for this as well. I am currently using a bridge
> version of:
>
> https://github.com/unixpickle/Expressions
>
> And it works quite well. But I think a pure Swift implementation,
> especially with dimensional analysis, would be useful to a great number of
> people.
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