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Create `uom` error message filter similar to `tnfilt`

Open iliekturtles opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

tnfilt (at least the slightly patched version I submitted in a PR (it looks like rustc has changed the amount of qualification in shows in the error messages, since tnfilt was written) which has been ignored thus far) does work with uom, but it doesn't help much. For example, it turns this

Quantity<(dyn Dimension<L = PInt<UInt<UTerm, B1>>, J = Z0, Kind = (dyn Kind + 'static), N = Z0, T = NInt<UInt<UInt<UTerm, B1>, B0>>, M = Z0, Th = Z0, I = Z0> + 'static), (dyn uom::si::Units<f32, luminous_intensity = uom::si::luminous_intensity::candela, mass = uom::si::mass::kilogram, length = uom::si::length::meter, time = uom::si::time::second, thermodynamic_temperature = uom::si::thermodynamic_temperature::kelvin, amount_of_substance = uom::si::amount_of_substance::mole, electric_current = uom::si::electric_current::ampere> + 'static), f32>

into this

Quantity<(dyn Dimension<L = PInt<U1>,              J = Z0, Kind = (dyn Kind + 'static), N = Z0, T = NInt<U2>,                        M = Z0, Th = Z0, I = Z0> + 'static), (dyn uom::si::Units<f32, luminous_intensity = uom::si::luminous_intensity::candela, mass = uom::si::mass::kilogram, length = uom::si::length::meter, time = uom::si::time::second, thermodynamic_temperature = uom::si::thermodynamic_temperature::kelvin, amount_of_substance = uom::si::amount_of_substance::mole, electric_current = uom::si::electric_current::ampere> + 'static), f32>

(alignment mine) which is almost nothing on the scale of the total amount of noise.

All it does is things like

  • PInt<UInt<UTerm, B1>> -> PInt<U1>
  • NInt<UInt<UInt<UTerm, B1>, B0>> -> NInt<U2>

If all that noise can be reduced to something like this Quantity<m^1 s^-2, Kind, f32>, then it would be really useful. I'll have a go, and see how close I can get to that ideal, but progress will be very slow, for lack of time.

Originally posted by @jacg in https://github.com/iliekturtles/uom/issues/293#issuecomment-1083447857

iliekturtles avatar Mar 30 '22 18:03 iliekturtles