Douglas McClean

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Do you happen to understand the `manual` property of cabal package flags?

I think it would be useful to take the `groups` dependency. We are swimming in groups. I might even be missing some, but at least we have: - `instance Group...

Those are both good thoughts. It may be that the ambiguities disappear entirely if you know the expected dimension. Although it might be tough to prove that exhaustively, especially because...

I'm going to let this one sit. It turns out I can get everything I really need from a drop down list. It potentially might be nice for the dimensional...

I like those. I think the Unified Code for Units of Measure might be the best fit. I did happen to see the Haskell mailing list announcement you mention, but...

I think everything is pretty well in place for this in my branch, assuming the user can supply a dictionary from names to units. For making that dictionary it will...

Very interesting, thanks @jdreaver. We should look at adapting your parser to return the type here: https://github.com/bjornbm/dimensional-dk/blob/master/src/Numeric/Units/Dimensional/UnitNames/Internal.hs#L32 @bjornbm's comment above about returning multiple parses in ambiguous situations like that is...

This is coming along really nicely in `dimensional-attoparsec` (only builds against the `prefixes` branch of `dimensional`. It just needs a few minor tweaks to work around some oddities of the...

My notes on this: ## From a 5/10 email to Bjorn Raises some interesting points. Taking the easy part first: The point about vector and affine quantities is something we...

In my opinion there are two key steps to making this happen: 1. Explaining why/how the angle dimension is implicit in some cross products in freshman physics but not others....