Top 3 C++ units-of-measurement Projects
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I suspect C++ still comes the closest to what you’re asking for today, at least among mainstream programming languages.
Matrix dimensions are certainly doable, for example, because templates representing mathematical types like matrices and vectors can be parametrised by integers defining their dimension(s) as well as the type of an individual element.
You can also use template wizardry to write libraries like mp-units¹ or units² that provide explicit representations for numerical values with units. You can even get fancy with user-defined literals so you can write things like 0.5_m and have a suitably-typed value created (though that particular trick does get less useful once you need arbitrary compound units like kg·m·s⁻²).
Both of those are fairly well-defined problems and the solutions available do provide a good degree of static checking at compile time.
IMHO, the range question is the trickiest one of your three examples, because in real mathematical code there are so many different things you might want to constrain. You could define a parametrised type representing open or closed ranges of integers between X and Y easily enough, but how far down the rabbit hole do you go? Fractional values with attached precision/error metadata? The 572 specific varieties of matrix that get defined in a linear algebra textbook, and which variety you get back when you compute a product of any two of them?
¹ https://mpusz.github.io/mp-units/
² http://nholthaus.github.io/units/
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A C++14-compatible physical units library with no dependencies and a single-file delivery option. Emphasis on safety, accessibility, performance, and developer experience. (by aurora-opensource)
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What are some of the best open-source units-of-measurement projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | mp-units | 1,177 |
| 2 | au | 358 |
| 3 | konverter | 1 |
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