Clarify features - Githubissues

jonaskello commented 5 years ago

I think it would be good to clarify which features this package supports, both in the code and in the readme. Here is a list of the ones I know we use:

Conversion between units
Type-safety (declare function signatures to accept certain quantities)
Amount arithmetics (plus, minus, divide?, multiply?)
Create new unit (extensibility)
Serialize/Deserialize to a simple string ("Celcius")
Format unit name/symbol for on-screen display
Format unit value for on-screen display (number of decimals)
Switch between SI/IP and find corresponding unit
Put units in a dropdown (need to identify each unit as the selected one)

jonaskello commented 5 years ago

Having the extensibility to create new units makes some of the other features harder, such as identifying each unit and serialisation to/from single string.

jonaskello commented 5 years ago

This issue was solved by #17 and #18.

dividab / uom

Clarify features #15