Ever since #44, the old behavior of selecting a nice unit to display the quantity in was disabled since there were just too many units to make sense of the result. (10m would be printed as 1 dam).
There are many solutions to this, but I think a nice one should prevent certain prefixes from ever being printed in (deca, hecto) - if one really wants to go overboard this could be unit specific (hPa is used) and we could add an attribute #[debug_print] over a unit to declare a preferred unit for printing in (#41 ).
The main difficulty in implementing any of this (this applies to #33 ) is that storing the unit information at runtime is very awkward currently. What I'd like to do is define a proper container for the runtime information we have about units that can quickly answer questions such as "what are all the units for a given dimension".
Ever since #44, the old behavior of selecting a nice unit to display the quantity in was disabled since there were just too many units to make sense of the result. (
10mwould be printed as1 dam).There are many solutions to this, but I think a nice one should prevent certain prefixes from ever being printed in (
deca,hecto) - if one really wants to go overboard this could be unit specific (hPais used) and we could add an attribute#[debug_print]over a unit to declare a preferred unit for printing in (#41 ).The main difficulty in implementing any of this (this applies to #33 ) is that storing the unit information at runtime is very awkward currently. What I'd like to do is define a proper container for the runtime information we have about units that can quickly answer questions such as "what are all the units for a given dimension".