Fixed coding errors in unit example

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btracey
2013-10-09 10:12:57 -07:00
parent 52e857f38a
commit 7cae6014b0
2 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions

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doc.go
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@@ -66,15 +66,17 @@
// used, however, to create the unit of 'Slide', because in this case slide
// is just a measurement of area. Instead, a constant could be defined.
// const Slide unit.Area = 0.001875 // m^2
// var WhiteBloodCellDim unit.Dimension
// func init(){
// WhiteBloodCellDim := unit.NewDimension()
// WhiteBloodCellDim = unit.NewDimension()
// }
// type WbcPerArea float64
// func (w WbcPerArea) Unit() *Unit{
// return NewUnit(w, Dimensions{WhiteBloodCellDim: 1, LengthDim: -2})
// return unit.NewUnit(float64(w), unit.Dimensions{WhiteBloodCellDim: 1, unit.LengthDim: -2})
// }
// func main(){
// // Add in something about using Unit
// v := WbcPerArea(15)
// fmt.Println(v.Unit())
// }
// Please note that Unit cannot catch all errors related to dimensionality.
// Different physical ideas are sometimes expressed with the same dimensions

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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ type Dimensions map[Dimension]int
var lastCreatedDimension Dimension = lastPackageDimension
var newUnitMutex *sync.Mutex = &sync.Mutex{} // so there is no race condition for dimension
//var dimensionStrings map[Dimension]string = make()
// NewDimension returns a new dimension variable which will have a
// unique representation across packages to prevent accidental overlap.
// NewDimension should only be called for unit types that are orthogonal